Louis-Léopold Boilly (La Bassée 1761-1845 Paris)
Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length
oil on panel
9 ½ x 7 ½ in. (23.5 x 18.5 cm.)
Louis-Léopold Boilly (La Bassée 1761-1845 Paris)
Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length
oil on panel
9 ½ x 7 ½ in. (23.5 x 18.5 cm.)
Anonymous sale; Lair-Dubreuil, Paris, 30 April 1924, lot 20. Anonymous sale; Hôtel Rameau, Paris, 26 June 1985, lot 35. with Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York, by 1985. Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 23 October 1998, lot 118, where acquired by the present owner.
P. Marmottan, Le peintre Louis Boilly (1761-1845), Paris, 1913, p. 206.
The present panel will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Boilly’s work by Etienne Breton and Pascal Zuber.
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