LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

28.86 in. (73.30 cm.) (height) by 35.87 in. (91.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'L. Boilly 1812' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Paris, Salon, 1812, no. 108. Paris, Salon, 1814, no. 112. Paris, L'École des Beaux Arts, Exposition de tableaux de maîtres anciens au profit des inondés du Midi, 1887, no. 6. Paris, Exposition universelle, Exposition rétrospective de la Ville de Paris, 1900, no. 9 bis. London, Matthiesen Fine Art, Eighty years of French painting: from Louis XIV to the Second Republic, Autumn 1991, no. 11; also New York, Stair Sainty Matthiesen. Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, The James Fairfax collection of Old Masters, 1992 (unnumbered). Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France, 5 November 1995-14 January 1996; also Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 4 February 1996-28 April 1996 (catalogue by Dr. Susan L. Siegfried). Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, The James Fairfax Collection of Old Master Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, 17 April-20 July 2003, no. 6 (catalogue by R. Beresford and P. Raissis).

Literature:

La Vérité au Salon de 1812, ou critique impartiale des tableaux et sculptures; par une société d'artistes, Paris, 1812, p. 6, no. 108. C.-P. Landon, Annales du Musée et de l'Ecole Moderne des Beaux-Arts, Salon de 1812, Paris, 1812, II, p. 101. Revue des tableaux par M.*** (Exposition de novembre 1812), Paris, 1812, p. 4, no. 108. A.L. Castellan, 'Beaux-Arts, Salon de 1812', Le Moniteur Universel, 10 March 1813, pp. 256-258. C.-P. Landon, Annales du Musée et de l'Ecole Moderne des Beaux-Arts, Salon de 1814, Paris, 1814, p. 99. A. Dinaux, 'Boilly', Archives Historiques et Littéraires du Nord de la France et du Midi, de la Belgique, VI, Valenciennes, 1847, pp. 194-209. A. Dinaux, 'Peintres français: Louis Boilly', L'Artiste, séries 5, V, 1 October 1850, pp. 133-135; 15 October 1850, pp. 148-150. E. Bellier de la Chavignerie, Dictionnaire général des artists de l'ecole Française, Paris, 1892, I, p. 109. H. Harrisse, L.-L. Boilly, peintre, dessinateur, et lithographe: sa vie et son oeuvre, 1761-1845, Paris, 1898, pp. 26, 82, 168, no. 37. C. Saunier, 'La Collection Lütz', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, period 3, year 44, XXVII, September 1902, pp. 425-428. L. Roger-Miles, in La collection Georges Lütz, sale catalogue, Paris, 1902, pp. 38-39. H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des Ventes d'Art, Paris, 1911, I, p. 275. P. Marmottan, Le peintre Louis Boilly (1761-1845), Paris, 1913, pp. 129-133, 229, 231. A. Mabille de Poncheville, Boilly, Paris, 1931, pp. 123-124, 126, illus. opp. p. 124. M.N. Benisovitch, 'Une autobiographie du peintre Louis Boilly', in Essays in honor of hans Tietze, New York, 1958, pp. 365-372, note 11. Paintings by old masters, exhibition catalogue, Colnaghi's, London, 1974, n.p., under no. 41. J.S. Hallam, 'The two manners of Louis-Léopold Boilly and French genre painting in transition', The Art Bulletin, LXIII, no. 4, December 1981, pp. 618-632, fig. 16. M. Delafond, in the exhibition catalogue, Louis Boilly, 1761-1845, Musée Marmottan, Paris, 1984, p. 51, under no. 26, pp. 108-109. Y. Brayer, 'Louis Boilly et son temps', L'Oeil, no. 346, May 1984, pp. 22-27. A. Scottez, Boilly, 1761-1845, un grand peintre français de la révolution á la restauration, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, 1988-89, pp. 118, 124. S.L. Siegfried, 'Spectacle and display in Boilly's L'Entrée du Jardin Turc' in Louis-Léopold Boilly's L'Entrée au jardin turc, Matthiesen, London, and Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York, 1991, pp. 5, figs 2-4. C. Fisher, 'James Fairfax: a remarkable collector of old masters', Apollo, CXXXVIII, no. 388, June 1994, pp. 3-8. Revue du Louvre, 1994, no. 4, p. 120. P. Bordes, review of Siegfried, 1995, The Burlington Magazine, CXXXVIII, no. 1115, February 1996, pp. 152-155. B.S. Wright, review of Siegfried, 1995, Eighteenth Century Studies, XXX, no. 1, fall 1996, pp. 97-98. B. Jobert, review of Siegfried, 1995, Revue de l'Art, no. 112, 1996, p. 78. R. Wrigley, 'For the sake of appearances' (review of Siegfried, 1995), Art History, XX, no. 2, June 1997, pp. 313-318.

Provenance:

Boilly sale; Bonnefons de Lavialle, Paris, 13-14 April 1829, lot 2 (781 FF to Lhérie). (Possibly) Comtesse A. de Vaux. Anonymous sale; Duchesne/Haro, Paris, 15 March 1894, lot 11 (15,500 FF) to. Georges Lütz (1835-1901); his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, 26-27 May 1902, lot 3 (36,310 FF to Seligmann). Comte and Comtesse A. de Gontaut-Biron, Paris, by 1931 and until 1933. Private collection, Geneva, by 1939. with Matthiesen, London, 1991, where purchased by the present owner in 1992.