Les amateurs de tableaux (The Picture Enthusiasts)

1823

Louis-Léopold Boilly

Artist, French, 1761 - 1845

François Seraphin Delpech

Lithographer, French, 1778 - 1825

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    crayon lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 35.5 x 25.5 cm (14 x 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1994.72.13

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Harrisse 1898, no. 1360, State only


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul McCarron, New York); purchased 1994 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1898

  • Harrisse, Henry. L.-L. Boilly. peintre, dessinateur et lithographe; sa vie et son oeuvre. Paris: Société de Propagation des Livres d'Art, 1898.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: T. lith. de Delpech.; lower right in stone: L. Boilly; across bottom in plate: Les amateurs de tableaux. / 30.; by later hand, upper right in graphite: 30; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 1193 / H[?]

Wikidata ID

Q75125371


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