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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 27, 2017 | Christie's | New York | Old Masters | 38 | $****** - ****** | A trompe l'oeil of an ivory and wood crucifix | |||
Jul 5, 2011 | Christie's | London | Old Master & British Paintings - Evening Sale | 20 | $****** - ****** | A trompe-l'oeil of an ivory and wood crucifix hanging on a wall |
paintings
64.8 x 48.6 cm (25.5 x 19.13 in)
oil on canvas
George Rushout, 3rd Baron Northwick (1811-1887), Northwick Park, Gloucestershire, and by descent through his widow to
Captain E.G. Spencer-Churchill (1876-1964); (†), Christie's, London, 29 October 1965, lot 65, where acquired by Leggatt for
The Dulverton Trust, Oxford; Christie's, London, 5 July 2011, lot 20 (£481,250).
with Jean-Luc Baroni, London, where acquired by the present owner.
Paris, Salon, 1812, no. 110.
Paris, Grand Palais; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, De David à Delacroix: La peinture française de 1774 à 1830, 16 November 1974-7 September 1975, no. 9.
Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La peinture dans la peinture, 18 December 1982-28 February 1983, no. 474.
Fort Worth and Washington DC, The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France, 1995, no. 44.
Washington National Gallery of Art, Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe-l'oeil Painting, 2002-2003, no. 52.
Magdalen College, Oxford, Chapel, on loan 1966-2011.
Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Boilly (1761-1845), 4 November 2011-6 February 2012, no. 162.
R.J. Durdent, Galerie des Peintres français du Salon de 1812, Paris, 1813, p. 54.
A Catalogue of the Pictures, Works of Art, etc., at Northwick Park, 1864, no. 402.
E. Bellier and L. Auvray, Dictionnaire général des artistes depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours, Paris, 1882, I, p. 109.
H. Harrisse, L.L. Boilly, peintre, dessinateur et lithographe. Sa vie et son oeuvre, 1761-1845, Paris, 1898, pp. 26, 55, 69, 82, 137, no. 39.
P. Marmottan, Le Peintre Louis Boilly (1761-1845), Paris, 1913, pp. 134-135.
T. Borenius, A catalogue of the Collection of Pictures at Northwick Park, 1921, no. 84.
J.S. Hallam, The genre works of Louis-Léopold Boilly, Washington, 1979, pp. 104-105, 250, fig. 113.
S. Siegfried, 'Boilly and the Frame-up of Trompe-l'oeil', Oxford Art Journal, Oxford, 1992, XV, no. 2, pp. 31, 33, fig 10.
S. Siegfried, The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly, New Haven and London, 1995, pp. 187-188, pl. 162.
M.-C. Chaudonneret, The Grove Dictionary of Art, ed. by J. Turner, London, 1996, IV, p. 241.
P. Sanchez and X. Seydoux, Les catalogues des Salons des Beaux-Arts: I, (1801-1819), Paris, 1999, p. 214.
M. Philippe, in Le trompe l'oeil : plus vrai que nature?, exhibition catalogue, Bourg-en-Bresse, 2005, p. 71.
J.P. Marandel, Eye for the Sensual. Selections from the Resnick Collection, exhibition catalogue, 2011, p. 55, under no. 5, fig. 21.
E. Biétry-Rivierre, 'Louis Boilly, le Talleyrand de la peinture', in Le Figaro et vous, 24-25 December 2011, p. 4.
A. Yacob, 'Boilly', in Dossier de l’Art, no. 190, Novembre 2011, pp. 28, 66, 73.
A. Yacob, 'La comédie humaine de Boilly', in L’Estampille/L’Objet d’Art, no. 474, December 2011, pp. 46-47.
