A group of grimacing men force one of their number to vomit in a bowl. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, 1823.
- Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.
- Date:
- 1823
- Reference:
- 16322i
- Part of:
- Grimaces
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1823
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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour.
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Les grimaces. L. Boilly. Lith de Delpech.
References note
Henry Harrisse, 'L.L. Boilly'. Paris société de propagation de livres d'art, 1898, p. 196ff.
Jean Laran and Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome troisième, Paris 1942, p. 54, Louis Boilly no. 6 ("6. Recueil de Grimaces, chez Delpech, 1823-1828, 95 pl. … No 3, cinq têtes autour d'un plat, 1823 [H. 1272, avec le titre de série et le no 3 ; id. coloriée; réimpr. Aubert avec le no. 46.")
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. I, p. 311, and vol. II, pp. 878-879, no. 2043E
Reference
Wellcome Collection 16322i
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 exemplars of first edition, up to 1000 on a few. Also issued in more limited editions in London." (Judith Wechsler, 'A Human Comedy', Thames and Hudson, London 1982, p. 194)
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