Five aged doctors crushed together in consultation. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, c. 1823.

Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.

Date:: [1823]

Reference:: 16315i

Part of:: Grimaces

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Description

"1760" refers to the time of the ancien régime and contrasts the picture with another of Boilly's 'Grimaces' series bearing the same title, but a different date, 1823. It shows a group of fashionable young doctors and can be seen in Wellcome Collection no. 16325i

Publication/Creation

[Paris] : [F-S. Delpech], [1823]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour.

Series

Grimaces

Contributors

Lettering

Consultation de medecins, 1760. L. Boilly. Lith de Delpech.

References note

Henry Harrisse, 'L.L. Boilly'. Paris société de propagation de livres d'art, 1898, no. 1287

Jean Laran and Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome troisième, Paris 1942, pp. 54-55, Louis Boilly no. 6 ("6. Recueil de Grimaces, chez Delpech, 1823-1828, 95 pl. … 15, Consultation de médecins, 1760, 1823 [H. 1287, épr. coloriée; en noir avec le no. 15 ; réimpr. Aubert avec le no. 60 ; fac-similé héliograv. chez Devambez, 1926.")

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. I, p. 312 and vol. II, pp. 880-881, no. 2059E

Reference

Wellcome Collection 16315i

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)