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Download or read book Louis-Leopold Boilly: Drawings and Paintings written by Raya Yotova and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761 - 1845) was a French painter and draftsman. A gifted creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings vividly documenting French middle-class social life. His life and work spanned the eras of monarchical France, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy.Boilly's early works showed a preference for amorous and moralising subjects. His small-scale paintings with carefully mannered colouring and precise detailing recalled the work of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painters such as Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667), Willem van Mieris and Gerard ter Borch (1617-1681), of whose work Boilly owned an important collection. After 1794, Boilly began to produce far more crowded compositions that serve as social chronicles. Boilly was also well respected for his portraiture, producing many portraits of the middle classes and other famous contemporaries.Boilly remains a highly regarded master of oil painting.