The artist as nomadic capitalist : the case of Louis-Léopold Boilly

Author

Siegfried, Susan L.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Art history. 1990, Num. 4, Vol. 13, p. 516-541, 6 ill.

ISSN

0141-6790

Abstract (en)

Reexamines the assumption that Boilly was an impoverished artist, as well as the critical view of late 18th and early 19th c. French genre painting as an accurate record of social reality; finds that Boilly's life and his financial dealings made him a member of the middle class, and that his late genre painting, Les Déménagements (Chicago, Art Institute), which depicts poor people moving house, reflects contemporary middle-class attitudes toward the poor rather than direct association with them on the part of the artist.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- France
• Boilly, Louis Léopold, 1761-1845
• Painting
• France
• 1800-1900
• Déménagements
• Art Institute of Chicago||Chicago (IL, USA)
• Genre
• Poor
• Iconography
• Art criticism

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- France
• Boilly, Louis Léopold, 1761-1845
• Peinture
• France
• 1800-1900
• Les Déménagements
• Art Institute of Chicago||Chicago (IL, USA)
• Sujet de genre
• Pauvres
• Iconographie
• Critique d'art

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920401-00422391

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