Louis-Léopold Boilly

French · 1761–1845

A creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings documenting French middle-class social life.

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Malvina Mortier de Trévise

Louis-Léopold Boilly · National Gallery of Art

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Louis-Léopold Boilly · National Gallery of Art

Who Louis-Léopold Boilly was

Louis-Léopold Boilly was a French painter and draftsman. A creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings 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. His 1800 painting Un Trompe-l'œil introduced the term trompe-l'œil, applied to the technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions, though the "unnamed" technique itself had existed in Greek and Roman times.

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