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

1823

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour.

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

'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)

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

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