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Louis-Léopold Boilly

1761 - 1845

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis-Léopold Boilly is the 626th most popular painter (down from 582nd in 2019), the 1,899th most popular biography from France (down from 1,719th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Louis-Léopold Boilly ranks 626 out of 2,023. Before him are Bernard van Orley, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, Will Sampson, Anton Janša, Paul Bril, and Jean-Paul Laurens. After him are Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Adrien Manglard, Tommaso da Modena, Odd Nerdrum, Melchior Broederlam, and Giovanni Pietro Bellori.

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Among people born in 1761, Louis-Léopold Boilly ranks 16. Before him are Philippe Buonarroti, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Smithson Tennant, José, Prince of Brazil, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Sineperver Sultan. After him are Antoine Barnave, Marguerite Gérard, Marie Harel, Jean-Louis Pons, John Moore, and August Batsch. Among people deceased in 1845, Louis-Léopold Boilly ranks 12. Before him are Guadalupe Victoria, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Wazir Akbar Khan, Henrik Wergeland, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, and Bernardino Rivadavia. After him are Isabella Colbran, Simon Mayr, Roustam Raza, Nils Gabriel Sefström, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia, and Zaman Shah Durrani.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis-Léopold Boilly ranks 1,899 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1610), Margaret of France, Queen of England (1282), Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (1604), Jean-Paul Laurens (1838), and Michel Fourniret (1942). After him are Robert Desnos (1900), Alexandre Guilmant (1837), Adrien Manglard (1695), Phillipe de Plessis (1165), Herleva (1003), and Bixente Lizarazu (1969).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Louis-Léopold Boilly ranks 122. Before him are Eugène Carrière (1849), Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758), Léon Cogniet (1794), Jules Breton (1827), Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), and Jean-Paul Laurens (1838). After him are Adrien Manglard (1695), Henri-Edmond Cross (1856), Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823), Pierre Soulages (1919), Achille Devéria (1800), and Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767).

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