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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 26, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Master Paintings Part I | 155 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of the singer Jean Elleviou in Le Prisonnier | |||
Jan 28, 2016 | Sotheby's | New York | Master Paintings Evening Sale | 51 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of the singer Jean Elleviou In Le Prisonnier | |||
Jun 27, 2002 | Sotheby's | Paris | Important Old Master Paintings & Drawings | 96 | $****** - ****** | Portrait de l'acteur Elleviou jouant le prisonnier |
paintings
53.7 x 40.3 cm (21.13 x 15.88 in)
oil on panel panel
signed lower left: L. Boilly
Prosper Bressant (1815-1886), Paris;
His sale ("M. Bressant de la Comédie Française"), Paris, Pillet, 24-25 November 1880, lot 49;
Possibly De Wailly collection;
Possibly by whom sold, Paris, Galerie Paulme, 29 December 1900 (according to Harrisse);
Félix Doistau (1846-1936), Paris;
His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 9 June 1909, lot 3;
Where acquired by Helbronner;
Jean Robiquet, by 1929;
Madame Alexandre Elissen, by 1930;
With Galerie Cailleux, Paris, by 1963;
Bruni-Tedeschi collection, Paris;
By whom anonymously sold, ("Appartenant à une collection particulière euopéenne"), Paris, Sotheby's, 27 June 2002, lot 96;
Where acquired.
Paris, Salon, Muséum central des Arts, year VI (1798), no. 41;
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition de portraits d'artistes dramatiques et lyriques du siècle, 1900, no. 160;
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Exposition théatrale: Union centrale des Arts décoratifs, April - October 1908, no. 444;
Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Le Théatre à Paris, 19 March - 4 May 1929, no. 9;
Possibly Paris, Galerie Seligmann, Hôtel de Sagan, L.L. Boilly , 1930, no. 164 (with incorrect dimensions, 35 by 42 cm.);
Paris, Galerie Charly Bailly, Pictura , 14 September - 30 October 2010.
"Exposition des peintres vivants commencée le 19 septembre 1798," Mercure de France , Paris 1798, pp. 45-46;
Itinéraire critique du Salon de l'an VI. Dédié aux artistes, Par un amateur , Paris 1798, p. 19;
Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture et gracure, exposés au Museum central des Arts, d'après l'arret du ministre de l'Interieur, le 1er Thermidor, an VI de la République , Paris 1798 p. 7, cat. no. 41;
P. Chaussard, "Exposition des ouvrages de peintures, sculptures, achitectures, gravures," Le Décadaire, Paris 1798, pp. 161-162;
F. Léger, R. de Chazet, et. al, Le Déménagement du Sallon ou le Portrait de Gilles , Paris 1798, p. 30;
C ollection des livrets des anciennes expositions...Salon de 1798 , Paris 1871, p. 16;
E. Bellier de la Chavignerie and L. Auvray, Dictionnaire general des artistes de l'école française , Paris 1882, vol. I, p. 108;
H. Harrisse, L.-L. Boilly , Paris 1898, p. 76, cat. no. 16 (with incorrect dimensions, 54 by 70 cm.);
Exposition de portraits d'artistes dramatiques et lyriques du siècle , exhibition catalogue, Paris 1900, p. 20, cat. no. 160;
Exposition théatrale: Union centrale des Arts décoratifs, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1908, p. 46, cat. no. 444;
M. Tourneaux, "Louis-Léopold Boilly," Gazette des beaux-arts, 1 November 1898, p. 238;
P. Marmottan, Le Peintre Louis Boilly (1761-1845) , Paris 1913, pp. 62, 67, 204, 232;
Le Théatre à Paris, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1929, p. 8, cat. no. 9;
H. de Curzon, Elleviou, Paris 1930, p. 16, reproduced p. III;
Possibly J. Seligmann, Louis-Léopold Boilly , exhibition catalogue, Paris 1930, p. 54;
A. Mabille de Poncheville, Boilly, Paris 1931, p. 106;
J.S. Hallam, The Genre Works of Louis Léopold Boilly , Seattle 1979, p. viii, 63-64, 229, reproduced fig. 72, p. 312;
M. Delafond, in Louis Boilly , exhibition catalogue, Paris 1984, p. 107;
J-F. Heim, C. Béraud, and P. Heim, Les Salons de peinture de la Révolution française: 1789-1799, Paris 1989, p. 146, reproduced;
S. L. Siegfried, The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly , New Haven and London 1995, pp. 188-189;
B. Peronnet and B.B. Fredericksen, Répertoire des tableaux vendus en France au XIXe siècle , Los Angeles 1998, vol. I, p. 173;
P. Sanchez, Disctionnaire des artistes exposant dans les Salons des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles a Paris et en province, Dijon 2004, p. 199;
Pictura , exhibition catalogue, Paris 2010, pp. 32-35, reproduced p. 35 (detail);
A. Scottez-De Wambrechies, Boilly (1761-1845), exhibition catalogue, Lille 2011, p. 240, reproduced fig. 1;
E. Bréton and P. Zuber, Louis-Léopold Boilly 1761-1845: Le peintre de la société Parisienne de Louis XVI a Louis-Philippe , Paris 2019, vol. II, p. 569, cat. no. 407P, reproduced p. 569 and vol. I, p. 287.
Louis-Léopold Boilly
La Bassée 1761 - 1845 Paris
Portrait of the singer Jean Elleviou in Le Prisonnier
signed lower left: L. Boilly
oil on panel
panel: 21⅛ by 15⅞ in.; 53.7 by 40.5 cm.
framed: 29 by 24 in.; 73.7 by 61 cm.
