# BOILLY, Louis Léopold [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1761–1845 - Profession: painter - School: French ## Biography French painter and printmaker. The son of a wood-carver, Arnould Boilly \(1764-79\), he lived in Douai until 1778, when he went to Arras to receive instruction in trompe l'oeil painting from Dominique Doncre \(1743-1820\). He moved to Paris in 1785. Between 1789 and 1791 he executed eight small scenes on moralizing and amorous subjects for the Avignon collector Esprit-Claude-François Calvet \(1728-1810\), including The Visit \(1789; Saint-Omer, Musée Hôtel Sandelin\). He exhibited at the Salon between 1791 and 1824 and received a gold medal at the Salon of 1804. From the beginning his genre subjects were extremely popular with the public and collectors. In 1833, at a time when his popularity was declining, he was admitted to the Légion d'honneur and the Institut de France. ## Related artworks - [A Lady Seated at Her Desk]() - [At the Entrance]() - [Departure of the Conscripts in 1807]() - [Gabrielle Arnault as a Child]() - [Game of Billiards]() - [Meeting of Artists in Isabey's Studio]() - [Painter]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of Madame Saint-Ange Chevrier in a Landscape]() - [Portrait of the Singer Jean Elleviou]() - [Reading of the Bulletin of the Grand Army]() - [Still-Life of Flowers in a Glass Vase]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()