Julien-Léopold Boilly

Julien-Léopold Boilly (30 August 1796 – 14 June 1874), also known as Jules Boilly, was a French artist noted for his album of lithographs Iconographie de l'Institut Royal de France (1820–1821) and his booklet Album de 73 portraits-charge aquarellés des membres de l'Institut (1820) containing watercolor caricatures of seventy-three famous mathematicians, in particular the French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre, the only known portrait of him.

Portrait of Boilly painted by his father Louis-Léopold, c. 1808

Born in Paris on 30 August 1796, he was a son of the genial painter-engraver Louis-Léopold Boilly. Admitted to the lycée at Versailles 15 December 1806,^[1] he painted portraits^[2] and illustrated books with lithographs.^[3] He also collected autographs.^[4] He died on 14 June 1874.

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  Cortège de l'empereur de Chine
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  François-Adrien Boieldieu 1825
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  Jean-Baptiste Stouf
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  His caricatural depiction of Adrien-Marie Legendre

References

1. Henry Harrisse, L.-L. Boilly, peintre, dessinateur, et lithographe: sa vie et son oeuvre 1761–1845;, 1898:33.
2. For example his portrait of George Sand (illustrated in J. B. Margadant The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France 2000.
3. For examples d'Ortigny, Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Amériques: résumé général de tous les voyages de Colomb, Las-Casas... 1836
4. Narisse 1898:44.

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