The Movings
Louis Léopold Boilly (French, 1761–1845)
1822
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
This slickly painted street scene uses the housing crisis of post-Revolutionary Paris, which forced poor people to move frequently in search of affordable homes, as a metaphor for other “movings” in life, particularly the transition from life to death. At center, a carriage loaded with furniture transports a young woman with her baby while, to their right, a black hearse moves towards the ethereal Roman church in the distance. The artist crossing the scene, easel in hand, just behind the horse may allude to the transient nature of such work, which often included travel between Rome and Paris.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 73 × 92 cm (28 3/4 × 36 1/8 in.)
Museum record · 6 owners · 5 exhibitions
Provenance
- In the possession of Louis-Léopold Boilly; his sale, Paris, April 13–14, 1829, lot 4; sold to James-Alexandre, comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier (died 1855), Paris.
- Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier Sale, Paris, March 21–April 4, 1865, lot 225; sold to Sauvage.
- Comtesse de Gramont d’Aster (1855–1905), Paris by 1898.
- Pierre Thomas, comte de Pange (1875–1946), Paris.
- Private collection in U.S.A.
- Wildenstein and Co., New York, by 1982; sold to the Art Institute, 1982.
Exhibitions
- Paris, Salon, Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans, exposés au Musée Royal des Arts, 1822.
- New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Consulat–Empire–Restauration: Art In Early XIX Century France, April 21–May 28, 1982, 87–88.
- Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, The Art of Louis-Leopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France, November 4, 1995–January 12, 1996; Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, February 4–April 28, 1996.
- Minneapolis, Institute of Art, Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism, June 8–September 7, 2003; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 7, 2003–January 4, 2004.
- Lille, France, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Louis-Léopold Boilly, November 4, 2011- February 6, 2012..
