Profile of a Young Woman's Head

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Profile of a Young Woman's Head

France, circa 1794
Paintings
Oil on paper laid on canvas
Canvas: 10 1/8 × 8 3/4 in. (25.72 × 22.23 cm) Frame: 12 1/2 × 11 × 2 1/2 in. (31.75 × 27.94 × 6.35 cm)
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation (M.2000.179.33)
Not currently on public view

Provenance

Andrew S....
Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924-2015), London, by 1973, sold 2000 to; LACMA.
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Bibliography

  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
  • Bréton, Étienne, and Pascal Zuber. Louis-Léopold Boilly: Le Peintre de la Société Parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe. Vol. 2. Paris: Arthena, 2019.
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
  • Bréton, Étienne, and Pascal Zuber. Louis-Léopold Boilly: Le Peintre de la Société Parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe. Vol. 2. Paris: Arthena, 2019.
  • Marandel, J. Patrice. French Oil Sketches from an English Collection, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries 1973-1975. Houston, TX: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1975.
  • Scottez de Wambrechies, Annie, Sylvain Laveissière, and Susan Siegfried. Boilly 1761-1845: Un grand peintre français de la Révolution à la Restauration (exh. cat.). Lille: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1988,
  • Walch, Peter, , Joanna R. Barnes,  J. Patrice Marandel. French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition. New York : American Federation of Arts in association with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
  • Marandel, J. Patrice.  French oil sketches from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 17th century - 19th century.  Los Angeles:  The Ahmanson Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.
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