The Vaccine

1806

Louis-Léopold Boilly

Artist, French, 1761 - 1845

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

lower right in ink: L. Boilly 1806.

Wikidata ID

Q64594034

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