Property from a Private Collection
Louis-Léopold Boilly
A set of six portraits: Portrait of a man wearing a black frock coat; Portrait of a lady wearing a white dress and a red cameo necklace; Portrait of a man wearing a black frock coat; Portrait of a man wearing a blue suit; Portrait of a First Empire officer in the uniform of the Imperial Army, wearing the cross of the Legion of Honour; Portrait of a First Empire officer in black uniform, wearing the badge of the Legion of Honour
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25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Property from a Private Collection
Louis-Léopold Boilly
La Bassée 1761–1845 Paris
A set of six portraits: Portrait of a man wearing a black frock coat; Portrait of a lady wearing a white dress and a red cameo necklace; Portrait of a man wearing a black frock coat; Portrait of a man wearing a blue suit; Portrait of a First Empire officer in the uniform of the Imperial Army, wearing the cross of the Legion of Honour; Portrait of a First Empire officer in black uniform, wearing the badge of the Legion of Honour
a set of six, each oil on canvas
unframed: each approx. 22 x 16.8 cm.; 8⅝ x 6⅝ in.
framed: each approx. 32 x 27 cm.; 12⅝ x 10⅝ in.
(6)
Octave Linet (1870–1962), Paris;
His posthumous sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, 23 March 1963, lots 5–8 and 13–14;
Acquired by the parents of the present owner, Paris;
By descent to the present owner in 2001.
É. Bréton and P. Zuber, Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761–1845): le peintre de la société Parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, vol. II, Paris 2019, pp. 812 and 822, nos 1495 PP and 1608 PP, reproduced on pp. 813 and 823 (only Portrait of a lady wearing a white dress and Portrait of a First Empire officer in black uniform, wearing the badge of the Legion of Honour).
We are grateful to Etienne Bréton for endorsing the attribution to Louis-Léopold Boilly on the basis of digital images. The four portraits unknown to Bréton and Pascal Zuber at the time of publication of their 2019 catalogue raisonné of Boilly's work (see Literature) will feature in their forthcoming supplement to the catalogue.
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