The Vaccine, 1806

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink and wash on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 44.3 x 59.4 cm (17 7/16 x 23 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dora Donner Ide in memory of William Henry Donner and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.3.1

Artists / Makers

Louis-Léopold Boilly (artist) French, 1761 - 1845

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in ink: L. Boilly 1806.

Provenance

Probably Julien Boilly collection (sale, Paris, 4 May 1868, no. 94); Variot Collection, Paris, 1930; (Jacques Seligmann & Co., Paris); Mrs. Russell Pope (sale, New York, Parke Bernet, 25 May 1946, no. 774); Lock and Baer, New York; Baron Cassell van Doorn, from 1946; private collection; M. R. Schweitzer and Didier Aaron, Inc., New York; purchased for NGA by Dora Donner Ide in 1990.

Associated Names

Private Collector c/o Didier Aaron, Inc.

Exhibition History

1930: Exposition L. L. Boilly,Galerie Jacques Seligmann & Fils, Paris, 1930, no. 128.

1991: NGA 50th Anniversary, 1991, p. 126.

Bibliography

1898: Harrisse, Harry. L. L. Boilly, Peintre, dessinateur et lithographe, Sa vie et son oeuvre. Paris, 1898, 184, no. 1188.

1931: Mabille de Poncheville, A. Boilly. Paris, 1931, 146.