Les Mangeurs d'Huitres (The Oyster Eaters)
Louis-Léopold Boilly, French, 1761 - 1845
1825
Hand colored lithograph on wove paper
Sheet: 12 × 9 13/16 in. (30.5 × 25 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.961.177
Publisher
Imprimerie lithographique de F. Delpech, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, on stone, lower left margin: L. Boilly 1825; inscribed, on plate lower right margin: I. lith. de Delpech; inscribed, on stone, lower center: Les Mangeurs d'Huitres.
Provenance
Rockman Prints; sold to present collection, 1961.
Catalogue Raisonne
J. Laran, Inventaire du fonds francais apres 1800, vol 10, p. 57, no. 59.
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