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    The Arcades at the Palais-Royal
    Louis Léopold Boilly. The Arcades at the Palais-Royal, c. 1804. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002319

    The Arcades at the Palais-Royal

    by Louis Léopold Boilly

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    J. B. Delestre; probably sold, Paris, November 21, 1865. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 21, 1910, lot 1. Sold by Stephen Spector, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, pp. 74-75, cat. 68 (ill.). Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 29 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 62-63, cat. 27 (ill.). New York, Wildenstein & Co., "Consulat, Empire, Restauration: Art in Early 19th Century France," April 21-May 28, 1982. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Palais des Beaux-Art, "Louis-Léopold Boilly", November 4, 2011 - February 6, 2012. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gods and (Super)heroes: Drawing in an Age of Revolution", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.

    Publications

    H. Harrisse, Louis Leopold Boilly: Peintre, Dessinateur et Lithographe: Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre (Paris, 1898), no. 1002. P. Marmottan, Le Peintre Louis Boilly (Paris, 1913), p. 99. A. Mabille de Poncheville, Boilly (Paris, 1930), p. 87. Jacques Wilhelm, "Les Galeries du Palais-Royal," Bulletin du Musée Carnavalet, 6 (November 1953), pp. 4-5. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 1A1. Richard Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (Chicago, 1987), pp. 11-12, and 117 (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Louis Léopold Boilly / French, 1761-1845
    Date
    c. 1804
    Medium
    Pen and black ink, and brush and gray wash, with gray gouache, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    36.5 × 45.7 cm (14 3/8 × 18 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    ink or chalk wash
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Worcester Sketch Fund
    Accession no.
    1963.558

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