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Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845)

  • News Items : Several Important Donations by Mrs. Charles Wrightsman to the Metropolitan Museum 29/05/2012

    At the age of 93, Jayne Wrightsman, the widow of Charles Wrightsman, continues the patronage which she and her husband (who died in 1986) have always pursued towards the Metropolitan Museum. This American institution has thus received a donation (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • Exhibitions : Intimate Scenes. French Genre Painting between the Revolution and the Restoration 27/11/2011

    The Musée des Augustins has chosen to approach the chaotic period between the French Revolution and the Restoration by way of genre painting. All of the canvases, some of which are unpublished, come exclusively from French collections, either (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • Exhibitions : Boilly (1761-1845) 17/11/2011

    “A great or a minor master ?” asks Jacques Foucart in a catalogue essay which raises many other questions as well. This is not the first time this one comes up and the Lille exhibition on Louis-Léopold Boilly, often reduced to the stature of a (...)

    Lire la suite par Daniel Couty

  • News Items : Boilly and Longhi : Some Genre Scenes for the Getty Museum 14/11/2011

    The very beautiful exhibition on Louis-Léopold Boilly which just opened at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille and for which we will soon publish a review comes at almost the same time as the recent acquisition of a painting and a drawing by the (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : Several exhibitions in Parisian galleries 27/09/2010

    The Biennale des antiquaires is now accompanied by an increasing number of exhibitions off at Parisian antique dealers’, and which are often highly interesting. We already mentioned here the exhibitions at the J. Kugel (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • Exhibitions : Masters of European Drawing from the 16th to the 20th century. Georges Pebereau Collection 14/01/2010

    Should private collections be exhibited at the Louvre ? The answer is certainly yes when they are of museum quality. This was the case for the Louis-Antoine Prat’s and also the Motais de Narbonne’s which will be shown in the spring. Can one say (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : A Boilly and a Sablet for the Louvre ; a Sablet (maybe) for the Musée Fesch 18/11/2007

    Just a few days apart, the Louvre pre-empted, on 20 October in Marseille (Damien Leclere Auction House) and on 31 October in Paris (Thierry de Maigret AH) two works

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner