A medical practitioner administers leeches to a patient. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1827.
- Boilly, Louis, 1761-1845.
- Date:
- 1827
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- 652845i
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Description
In the foreground, a boy (a surgeon's apprentice?) holds a glass box of leeches
Publication/Creation
[Paris] : [publisher not identified], 1827 ([Paris] : I[mp.] Lith. de Delpech)
Physical description
1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; sheet 34.7 x 25.7 cm
Lettering
Les sangsues. L. Boilly 1827
References note
Henry Harrisse, L.L. Boilly, Paris: Société de propagation de livres d'art, 1898, no. 1342
Jean Laran and Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome troisième, Paris 1942, p. 58, Louis Boilly no. 9 ("9. Même suite [Recueil de Grimaces, chez Delpech, 1823-1828, 95 pl.] … No. 85, Les sangsues, 1827 [H. 1342, avec le no. 85; réimpr. Aubert avec le no. 101.")
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. 892-893, no. 2126E
Reference
Wellcome Collection 652845i
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 copies were published of the first edition, up to 1000 on a few. Also issued in more limited editions in London.--Judith Wechsler, A human comedy', London 1982, p. 194
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