Louis-Léopold BOILLY (La Bassée 1761 - Paris 1845) - Lot 40

Louis-Léopold BOILLY (La Bassée 1761 - Paris 1845) The game of the hot hand Watercolor over black pencil lines. Signed and dated lower left 1827. Small stain on left edge. 15.3 x 20.5 cm Our drawing reproduces the composition of the painting exhibited at the 1824 Salon. It is preparatory to the lithograph by Jean-Marie Ligny in 1830. Bibliography: E. Bréton, P. Zuber, Boilly, le peintre de la Société parisienne, de Louis XVI à Louis Philippe, Arthena, Paris, 2019, p.743, n°1000D, repr. Provenance: perhaps sale after death of Monsieur Henri Auguste César Serrur (1794-1865), peintre d'histoire, Dubourg, January 15, 1866, no. 152. Exhibition: exhibition catalog, Louis Boilly, May 3-June 30, 1984, Musée Marmottan, Delafond, Marianne Paris, 1984, no. 89.