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| Artist | Louis-Léopold Boilly |
| Year | 1806 |
| Type | Oil on panel, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 24 cm × 33 cm (9.4 in × 13 in) |
| Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
The Card Sharp on the Boulevard is an 1806 genre painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly. It depicts a scene on the Boulevard du Temples in Napoleonic era Paris, with a conjuror or card sharp on the right, entertaining a crowd. The artist added a self-portrait of himself in a bicorne hat amongst the group of spectators.
Voilly exhibited the painting at the Salon of 1808 at the Louvre, along with a pendant piece Young Savoyards Showing Their Marmot. It was also displayed at the Salon of 1814, which was hastily organised following the Bourbon Restoration. Today it is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
References
- Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century. National Gallery of Art, 2000. p.50
- Eitner p.3
- https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.111638.html
- Bailey p.348
- https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.111638.html
Bibliography
- Bailey, Colin B. The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting. Yale University Press, 2003.
- Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century: Before impressionism. National Gallery of Art, 2000.
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