Julien Léopold Boilly
Master of lithographic portraits and caricatures
Julien-Léopold Boilly, 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. 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, he painted portraits and illustrated books with lithographs. He also collected autographs. He died on 14 June 1874.
Artworks by this artist
- Portrait de Jean-Baptiste Huzard 1796-1874
- Portrait du sculpteur Bosio 1821
- Elèves de l’atelier de Gros
- Prud’hon. 1820
- Guerin 1820
- Suzanne et les vieillards
- Apollon et les Muses – Title page 1851
- Apollo and Calliope 1851
- Trompe L’oeil Of A Bookshelf With A Terracotta Relief
- Hersent 1822
- Thalia and Melpomene 1851
- Good Friday procession in Quito
- Tête d’enfant endormi 1761-1845
- Gros. 1820
- Euterpe and Polyhymnia 1851
- Terpsichore and Erato 1851
- The Temptation of St. Anthony 19th century
- Girodet-Trioson 1822
- The Auction
- Clio and Urania 1851