The Movings

Paris, Salon, Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans, exposés au Musée Royal des Arts, 1822, cat. 121. New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Consulat–Empire–Restauration: Art In Early XIX Century France, April 21–May 28, 1982, pp. 74–75 (ill.), 87–88. Ft. Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, The Art of Louis-Leopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France, November 4, 1995–January 12, 1996; Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, February 4–April 28, 1996. Minneapolis, Institute of Art, Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism, June 8–September 7, 2003, cat. 87; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 7, 2003–January 4, 2004. Lille, France, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Louis-Léopold Boilly, November 4, 2011- February 6, 2012. cat. 144.

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