| Maker(s): | Boilly, Louis Léopold
| | Culture: | French (1761 - 1845)
| | Title: | A Young Painter and His Model
| | Date Made: | ca. 1788-1792
| | Type: | Painting
| | Materials: | oil on canvas
| | Place Made: | France
| | Measurements: | stretcher: 18 1/8 x 14 7/8 in.; 46.0375 x 37.7825 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | signed in black paint, lower left on verso of the outermost of stacked canvases: L. Boilly ft
| | Accession Number: | SC 1996.21
| | Credit Line: | Purchased with the Beatrice Oenslager Chace, class of 1928, Art Acquisition Fund, the Madeline H. Russell, class of 1937, Fund and the Hillyer-Tryon-Mather Fund
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Currently on view |
Description:
interior; work; man; woman; furniture; allegory
Label Text:
In this small canvas, the beautiful model is placed in a provocative context, framed between the painting of a boudoir seduction (to which the painter directs her attention) and a sculpture by Falconet of the "Sleeping Bacchante" on the table next to her. This flirtatious scene is set within the more general subject of the artist in his studio, a theme favored by Boilly who returned to it again and again. Visible in the painting are the artist's tools as well as references to visual art: painting, sculpture, drawing, textile design, and architecture.
Boilly was a great observer of life on and off the streets of Paris, which he painted in a highly refined style with a great eye for detail. This painting belongs to the early period of Boilly's career in Paris when he began to produce small works for private patrons, including scenes of amorous encounters, virtues and vices.
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