A woman examines another woman's sore eye, while other women look on. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1823.
- Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.
- Date:
- [1823]
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- 677727i
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[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [1823] ([Paris] : I[mp.] Lith. de Delpech)
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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image and lettering approximately 23 x 19 cm
Lettering
L. Boilly. Les grimaces 5
References note
Henry Harrisse, L.L. Boilly, Paris: Société de propagation de livres d'art, 1898, pp. 203-204, no. 1274
Jean Laran and Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome troisième, Paris 1942, pp. 54-55, Louis Boilly no. 6 ("6. Recueil de Grimaces, chez Delpech, 1823-1828, 95 pl. … No. 5, cinq têtes de femmes, 1823 [H. 1274, avec le titre de série et le no. 5; id. coloriée; réimpr. Aubert avec le no. 94")
Étienne Bréton and Pascal Zuber, Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1761-1845: le peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, Paris: Arthena, 2019, vol. II, pp. 878-879, no. 2045E
Reference
Wellcome Collection 677727i
Notes
'Grimaces' is the title of a series of 92 lithographs designed by Boilly between 1823 and 1828, reissued by the Maison Aubert in 1837 as 'Groupes physionomiques connus sous le nom de Grimaces par Boilly'. 200-300 copies were published of the first edition, up to 1000 on a few. Also issued in more limited editions in London.--Judith Wechsler, A human comedy', London 1982, p. 194
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