A group of young, fashionable doctors. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech after L. Boilly, 1823.

Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.

Date:: 1823

Reference:: 16325i

Part of:: Grimaces

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These fashionable young physicians of 1823 are contrasted with the aged representatives of the old medical establishment in Boilly's companion picture; see Wellcome Library record nos. 16314i-16318i

Publication/Creation

1823

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour.

Series

Grimaces

Contributors

Lettering

Consultation de médecins 1823. L. Boilly. I. lith de Delpech.

References note

Henry Harrisse, 'L.L. Boilly'. Paris société de propagation de livres d'art, 1898, p. 196ff.

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. … No. 16 (?), Consultation de médecins, 1823, [H. 1288, en noir; coloriée; réimpr. Aubert avec le no. 71; fac-similé héliogr. chez Devambez, 1926.")

Carolyn A. Day, Consumptive chic: a history of beauty, fashion, and disease, [London?] 2017, p. 16, fig. 2.1

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, pp. 881-882, no. 2061E

Reference

Wellcome Collection 16325i

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)