Jeune femme lisant dans un paysage (Young Woman Reading in a Landscape)

Louis-Léopold Boilly, French, 1761 - 1845

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Watercolor, black and white chalk with sanguine and white highlights on medium weight, smooth, off-white wove paper

Overall: 17 5/16 × 12 15/16 in. (44 × 32.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Florence and Lansing Porter Moore 1937 Fund

D.2003.19

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Course History

SART 31, SART 72, Painting II, Painting III, Jennifer Caine, Fall 2013

WRIT 5, Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2014

HUM 1, Dialogue with the Classics, Andrea Tarnowski, Spring 2019

ARTH 28.05, Art & Society in the Rococo, Kristin O'Rourke, Spring 2022

ARTH 28.10, Fashion in Art, Kristin O'Rourke, Fall 2022

ITAL 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2022

ITAL 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022

ITAL 1.03, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022

Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023

Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023

Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen, Winter 2023

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023

Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Matteo Gilebbi, Winter 2023

History 47.02, The French Revolution, Darrin McMahon, Spring 2023

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian 1, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2023

Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian 1, Marco D'Angelo, Fall 2023

Italian 1.03, Introductory Italian 1, Floriana Ciniglia, Fall 2023

Italian 1.04, Introductory Italian 1, Noemi Perego, Fall 2023

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Marco D'Angelo, Fall 2023

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian 1, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2024

Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian 1, Floriana Ciniglia, Winter 2024

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2024

Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Noemi Perego, Winter 2024

Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024

Studio Art 17.08, Digital Drawing, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2024

Geography 29.01, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Spring 2024

Geography 29.01, Global Cities, Erin Collins, Spring 2024

Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024

Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024

Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024

Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024

Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 26, Feminine Genius: Sensibility, Sensuality, and Sense in Eighteenth-Century Portraiture, Kori Lisa Yee Litt, Class of 2005, Curatorial/Education Department Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 23-July 10, 2005.

European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.

From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 24-October 21, 2019.

Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 26, 2003-February 4, 2004.

Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761-1845), Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France, November 4, 2011-February 6, 2012.

Rococo to Modernism: European Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection and Dartmouth's Alumni, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 30, 2004.

The Object World, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 5-March 15, 2015.

Publication History

T. Barton Thurber, Twenty Years of Building a Collection: The Hood Museum of Art, Apollo (Vol. 162, no. 526), December 2005, London: Apollo Magazine, 2005, pp. 46-53, ill. p.53.

Kori Lisa Yee Litt, A Space for Dialogue 26, Feminine Genius: Sensibility, Sensuality, and Sense in Eighteenth-Century Portraiture, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2005, ill. p. 3.

T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 172-173, ill. pp. 172/173, no. 105.

Ed. Nicolas Chaudun, Boilly (1761-1845), France: Editions Nicolas Chaudun and Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, 2011, p.160.

Bréton, Étienne, and Pascal Zuber. Louis–Léopold Boilly (1761–1845): Le Peintre De La Société Parisienne De Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe. Paris: Arthena, 2019.

Provenance

Vigna Collection before 1923; Galerie Brame, Paris; Galerie Seligmann, Paris; Taylor Estate before 1959; Parke-Bernet, New York, October 16-17, 1959, lot 249, illus.; sold to a London collector; to Didier Aaron, Inc., New York, New York, 2001; sold to present collection, 2003.

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