French
DeutschThe Card Sharp on the Boulevard
| The Card Sharp on the Boulevard | |
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| Artist | Louis-Léopold Boilly |
| Year | 1806 |
| Type | Oil on panel, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 24 cm × 33 cm (9.4 in × 13 in) |
| Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
The Card Sharp on the Boulevard is an 1806 genre painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly.[1] [2] It depicts a scene on the Boulevard du Temples in Napoleonic era Paris, with a conjuror or card sharp on the right, entertaining a crowd. The artist added a self-portrait of himself in a bicorne hat amongst the group of spectators.[3]
Voilly exhibited the painting at the Salon of 1808 at the Louvre, along with a pendant piece Young Savoyards Showing Their Marmot.[4] It was also displayed at the Salon of 1814, which was hastily organised following the Bourbon Restoration. Today it is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century. National Gallery of Art, 2000. p.50
- ^ Eitner p.3
- ^ https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.111638.html
- ^ Bailey p.348
- ^ https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.111638.html
Bibliography
[edit]- Bailey, Colin B. The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting. Yale University Press, 2003.
- Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century: Before impressionism. National Gallery of Art, 2000.
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