Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Watercolour after L. Boilly, ca. 1823.
- Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.
- Date:
- 1823
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- 18177i
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The same composition as a lithograph by Boilly, "Consultation de medecins 1760", published in 1823 (Harrisse no. 1287; Bréton and Zuber no. 2059E). The present drawing does not resemble Boilly's preparatory studies for Les grimaces reproduced by Bréton and Zuber, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 718-726, which are mostly in black and white chalks on brown paper
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1823
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1 drawing : black crayon and watercolour.
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Consultation de medecins
Notes
'Grimaces' is the title of a series of 92 lithographs designed by Boilly between 1823 and 1828, "reissued by the Maison Aubert in 1837 as 'Groupes physionomiques connus sous le nom de grimaces par Boilly'. 200-300 exemplars of first edition, up to 1000 on a few. Also issued in more limited editions in London." (Judith Wechsler, 'A Human Comedy', Thames and Hudson, London 1982, p. 194)
References note
Henry Harrisse, L.L. Boilly. Paris: Société de propagation de livres d'art, 1898, no. 1287 (the lithograph)
Étienne Bréton and Pascal Zuber, Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1761-1845: le peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, Paris: Arthena, 2019, vol. II, p. 880-881, no. 2059E (the lithograph)
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Wellcome Collection 18177i
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