Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) has been an unknown quantity to the British public until the recent (and very small) exhibitions of his work at the Wallace Collection (three of its own paintings ...

If the name Louis-Léopold Boilly means little to you, you’re hardly alone. Boilly is a forgotten master of French art from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A National Gallery exhibition ...

If ever there were a painter doomed to live in interesting times, it was Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761-1845). He was born into the Ancien Regime, witnessed the French Revolution, saw the rise and ...

Louis-Léopold Boilly was a businessman. He saw that there was a bob or two to be made in creating bawdy, naughty paintings for the turn of the nineteenth century bourgeoisie, and he went in hard.

His friend Louis-Leopold Boilly painted Houdon in the midst of sculpting an academic figure from a nude model, seated to the right. A figural pyramid anchors Boilly’s composition, in good Neo ...

This chart shows whether Louis-Léopold Boilly’s total sales are going up, and if so, whether this is because more artworks by the artist have been offered and sold or because more high-value artworks ...