# A Lady Seated at Her Desk

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BOILLY, Louis Léopold](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boilly-louis-lopold-r2ab5727c87ac5c>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 46 x 39 cm

## Commentary

From the late 1780s onwards, after he had settled in Paris, Boilly painted an increasing number of small scale cabinet paintings that appealed greatly to private collectors. These paintings successfully combined the contemporary appetite for moralising, amorous or sentimental subjects with a meticulous technique reminiscent of the 17th century Dutch painters such as Gerard Terborch.

## Related artworks

- [At the Entrance](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boilly-louis-lopold-r2ab5727c87ac5c/at-the-entrance-r3a65c1c75c4e95>)
- [Departure of the Conscripts in 1807](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boilly-louis-lopold-r2ab5727c87ac5c/departure-of-the-conscripts-in-1807-r0021bde853c644>)
- [Gabrielle Arnault as a Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boilly-louis-lopold-r2ab5727c87ac5c/gabrielle-arnault-as-a-child-r528aa151bd7079>)
- [Game of Billiards](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boilly-louis-lopold-r2ab5727c87ac5c/game-of-billiards-ra4923b4439c264>)
- [Meeting of Artists in Isabey&#39;s Studio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boilly-louis-lopold-r2ab5727c87ac5c/meeting-of-artists-in-isabeys-studio-r087af420c1633d>)
- [Painter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boilly-louis-lopold-r2ab5727c87ac5c/painter-r167e3a238df16a>)
- [Portrait of a Lady](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boilly-louis-lopold-r2ab5727c87ac5c/portrait-of-a-lady-rd86896eb29c093>)
- [Portrait of Madame Saint-Ange Chevrier in a Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boilly-louis-lopold-r2ab5727c87ac5c/portrait-of-madame-saint-ange-chevrier-in-a-landscape-r1954e39ceed84c>)
- [Portrait of the Singer Jean Elleviou](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boilly-louis-lopold-r2ab5727c87ac5c/portrait-of-the-singer-jean-elleviou-r165554e421f016>)
- [Reading of the Bulletin of the Grand Army](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boilly-louis-lopold-r2ab5727c87ac5c/reading-of-the-bulletin-of-the-grand-army-r37dea710179bed>)
- [Still-Life of Flowers in a Glass Vase](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boilly-louis-lopold-r2ab5727c87ac5c/still-life-of-flowers-in-a-glass-vase-r0e05c040e7746d>)
- [The Arrival of a Stage-coach in the Courtyard of the Messageries](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/boilly-louis-lopold-r2ab5727c87ac5c/the-arrival-of-a-stage-coach-in-the-courtyard-of-the-messageries-rbac29e0b0ac743>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)