Louis-Léopold Boilly
French painter and draftsman (1761–1845) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Louis-Léopold Boilly (French pronunciation: [lwi leɔpɔl(d) bwɑji] ⓘ; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) 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 ("trick the eye"), 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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Born | Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-07-05)5 July 1761[1] La Bassée, France |
Died | 4 January 1845(1845-01-04) (aged 83) Paris, France |
Known for | Portrait painting, genre painting |