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Louis-Léopold Boilly · 1832
Louis-Léopold Boilly: 1761–1845
Other names (17)
Boilly, Boilly J.L., Boily, L. Boilly, Leopold Boilly, l.l. boilly, Louis Boilly, louis l. boilly, louis leop. boilly, Louis-Leopold Boilly, Louis Léopold, La Bassée Boilly, Ludwig Leopold Boilly, M. Boili, M. Boilli, M. Boilly, Mons. Boilly, M^Tr^R Boilly
Biography
Louis-Léopold Boilly (French: [lwi leɔpɔl(d) bwɑji] ; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) was a French painter and draftsman. A creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings documenting French middle-class social life. His life and work spanned the eras of monarchical France, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy. His 1800 painting Un Trompe-l'œil introduced the term trompe-l'œil ("trick the eye"), applied to the technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions, though the "unnamed" technique itself had existed in Greek and Roman times.
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Influenced by
- Charles-Alexandre-Joseph Caulleteditorial inference
Evidence
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- Dominique Doncreeditorial inference
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Louis-Léopold Boilly. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Musée Carnavalet17 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre16 recorded works
- musée de l'hôtel Sandelin — Saint-Omer10 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille10 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art9 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art6 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux5 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen5 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts5 recorded works
- musée Lambinet — Versailles4 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art4 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie — Troyes2 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)2 recorded works
- A. G. Leventis Gallery1 recorded work
- Minneapolis Institute of Art1 recorded work
- musée Condé — Chantilly1 recorded work
- Musée de Grenoble1 recorded work
- musée de la Chartreuse — Douai1 recorded work
- musée départemental d'art ancien et contemporain — Epinal1 recorded work
- musée des arts décoratifs et du design — Bordeaux1 recorded work
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Orléans1 recorded work
- Nationalmuseum1 recorded work
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- Wikidata (CC0)
- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links