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Louis-Léopold Boilly
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Louis-Léopold Boilly
- La partie de piquet
- Black chalk and stumping, heightened with white chalk on brown paper;
signed in black chalk, lower right: L. Boilly
Provenance
Probably sale, Paris, Delestre, 3 April 1882, lot 23, for 170 francs,
to Paulme;
Prof. Einar Perman, Stockholm, after 1920,
thence by descent to the present owner
to Paulme;
Prof. Einar Perman, Stockholm, after 1920,
thence by descent to the present owner
Catalogue Note
We are grateful to Pascal Zuber for kindly informing us that this drawing is preparatory for the lithograph La partie de piquet and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Boilly's works that he and Etienne Breton are preparing.
The composition is also known through a watercolour,1 dated 1821, sold in these rooms in 1988 and an oil painting2 previously on the French art market in the same year.
1. Sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 2 December 1988, lot 393
2. Sale, Paris, Couturier Nicolay, 18 March 1988, lot 36