The Public in the Salon of the Louvre, Viewing the Painting of the "Sacre", begun 1808

Provenance

Antoine-Vincent Arnault (sale, Paris, Coutelier, 15-18 April 1835, lot 20); W.W. Hope (sale, Paris, Pouchet, 12 June 1855, lot 32); Eugène Tondu (apparently his sale, Paris, Pillet, 24 April 1865); Emile Delagarde, by 1930; E.M. Hermes; (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 November 1984, lot 1); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.

Exhibition History

1930

Exposition L.-L. Boilly, Jacques Seligmann & Fils, Paris, 1930, no. 101.

1985

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1985, no. 107 (checklist only).

1986

Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 101.

1986

Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 85.

1987

Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 84.

1989

1789: French Art During the Revolution, Colnaghi Gallery, New York, 1989, no. 5.

1990

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 105.

1995

The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996, no. 37b.

1995

The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 101.

1999

Dominique-Vivant Denon: L'oeil de Napoléon, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1999-2000, no. 374

2000

Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 202.

2004

"Le Sacre de Napoléon Peint par David", Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2004-2005, no. 40.

2006

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2017

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1898

Harisse, Henry. L.-L. Boilly Peintre, Dessinateur et Lithographe: Sa Vie et son Oeuvre 1761-1845. Paris, 1898: 24-25, no. 1145.

1913

Marmottan, Paul. Le peintre Louis Boilly (1791-1845). Paris, 1913: 123.

1934

Goldschmidt, Ernst.Frankrigs Malerkunst, dens Farve, dens Historie. Copenhagen, 1934: 140, 142, 210, reprod. p. 135.

1973

Chatelain, Jean. Dominique Vivant Denon at le Louvre de Napoléon. Paris, 1973: repro. between pages 192 and 193.

1985

Duret-Robert, François. "Deux longueurs d'avance pour Madame Vigée-Le Brun," Connaissance des arts, 395 (January 1985): repro. 92.

1985

Eliel, C.S. "Form and Content in the Genre Works of Louis-Léopold Boilly," Ph.D. dissertation, New York University Institute of Fine Arts, 1985: 39-42.

1990

Horii, Toshio. "From the Age of Refinement to the World of the Tempest."In Revolution in Fashion: European Clothing, 1715-1815, New York, 1990: repro. 124.

1995

Siegfried, Susan L. The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France. Exh. cat. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 37b.

1995

The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 101.

2005

Fahy, Everett. The Wrightsman Pictures. New Haven, 2005: 287, under cat. 76, fig. 4.

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