Louis Léopold Boilly
Louis Léopold Boilly , born with Based the the July 5th 1761 and died in Paris the January 4th 1845, is a painter, draftsman and French, known engraver in particular for its scenes of Parisian life in the years which follow the Révolution.
Its life and its work
Resulting from a modest milieu and wire of a wood-carver, it is high with Douai until the seventeen years age, then it studies painting in Trompe-l'oeil with Arras near Dominique Doncre before being established in Paris in 1785. To live, it is made portraitist. Between 1789 and 1791, it carries out a series of orders for the collector Avignon are born Spirit-Claude-François Calvet. Its first manner recalls the sentimental style or moralizer of Greuze and Fragonard to the 18th century, kind into which it integrates little by little the precision of the Dutch Masters of the previous century, of which it has an important collection.It exposes for the first time to the Salon of 1791 and is made known as well for its portraits and its trompe-l'oeil paintings as for its scenes of kind to the gallant topics or grivois. In 1794, it is denounced by the painter Jean-Baptiste Wicar, revolutionary puritan, and the republican Company of Arts threatens to make it continue for obscenity by the Comité of public hello.
These paintings thoroughly observed and carried out reflect all diversity of the urban life, its costumes and its habits, between the revolutionary period and the Restauration. They are very appreciated by the public of the Living room, which allots a gold medal in to him 1804. In 1823, Boilly produces a series of Lithographie S humorous entitled Grimaces . It is made knight of the Légion of honor and becomes member of the Institut of France in 1833. Its work, which on the whole counts approximately five thousand portraits and five hundred scenes of kind, passes from mode after the Restoration. She is especially appreciated today for her documentary interest.
Its three sons, Julien Léopold (1796-1874), Edouard (1799-1854) and Alphonse Léopold (1801-1867), are also painters.
Gallery
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