
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002319The Arcades at the Palais-Royal
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.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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