son of wood-carver Arnould Boilly
with trompe l’oeil painter Dominique Doncre (Arras)
1791 – begins exhibiting at Paris Salon
1794 – tried for obscenity by French Revolutionary Comittee of Public Safety for Lovers and the Escaped Bird (Louvre, Paris); Triumph of Marat (Versailles) clears him of charges
1804 – receives gold medal at the Salon
1833 – admitted to Institut de France and Légion d’honneur
1824 – stops exhibiting at the Salon
Napoleon Bonaparte
Important ArtworksGathering of Artists in the Studio of Isabey, 1798 (Louvre, Paris)
The Card Sharp on the Boulevard, 1806 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
The Geography Lesson (Portrait of M. Gaudry and His Daughter), 1812 (Kimball Art Museum, Ft Worth)
Hallam, John Stephen. “The Two Manners of Louis-Léopold Boilly and French Genre Painting in Transition,” The Art Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 4 (December 1981): 618-33
Siegfried, Susan L. The Art of Louis-Leopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France. Exhibition catalogue. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995
