Louis-Léopold Boilly

The soup for the cats



Louis-Léopold Boilly - The soup for the cats



Louis-Léopold Boilly
The soup for the cats
32.4 x 40.9 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: L.Boilly
Sale Christie's, London, 19 April 2018


Provenance

Madame Preponnier, Demonville, Fossard
her sale, Lacoste, Paris, 31 March 1828, nr. 43 (FF 176)
Emile Pereire (1800-1875), Paris, 1898
anonymous sale, Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 17 June 1997, nr. 61
anonymous sale, Christie’s, New York, 23 October 1998, nr. 119, where acquired by the present owner
sale Christie's, London, 19 April 2018, nr. 160

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Louis-Léopold Boilly A trompe l'oeil of an ivory and wood crucifix
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The Barrel Game
c. 1828

Louis-Léopold Boilly The Arrival of the Stagecoach in the Courtyard of the Messageries
The Arrival of the Stagecoach in the Courtyard of the Messageries
1803

Louis-Léopold Boilly The Poor Cat
The Poor Cat
1832

Louis-Léopold Boilly Grateful Hearts
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c. 1790