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Louis-Léopold Boilly (La Bassée 1761-1845 Paris) A study for The Movings image 1
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Lot 235

Louis-Léopold Boilly
(La Bassée 1761-1845 Paris)
A study for The Movings

15 April 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Louis-Léopold Boilly (La Bassée 1761-1845 Paris)

A study for The Movings
black chalk and charcoal heightened with white on brown paper
26.7 x 19.9cm (10 1/2 x 7 13/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
E.Mans (Frits Lugt 878b, indistinct stamp)
Sale, Audap-Picard-Solanet & Associés, Paris, 19 March 1997, lot 6
With Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1998

Literature
S. Maison, Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century Drawings and Oil Sketches, exh.cat., London, 1998
T. Burollet, Les Peintures, Musée Cognacq-Jay, musée du XVIIIe siècle de la ville de Paris, Paris, 2004, p. 44
P. Zuber and E. Breton, Le Peintre De La Société Parisienne De Louis XVI a Louis-Philippe, Paris, 2019, vol. II, pp. 711-2 cat. no. 882D, ill.


The present work is a preparatory study for the central figure in Boilly's finished painting The Movings, dated 1822, now in the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.

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