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Louis-Léopold Boilly
Profile of a Young Woman's Headcirca 1794

Not on view
Oval oil portrait of a woman shown from the chest up in strict left-facing profile, head tilted downward, with dark upswept curls and a white low-cut dress, on a sandy tan background
Artist or Maker
Louis-Léopold Boilly
France, La Bassée, 1761-1845
Title
Profile of a Young Woman's Head
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1794
Medium
Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions
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)
Credit Line
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.2000.179.33
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance
Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924-2015), London, by 1973, sold 2000 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.