The Movings

• L’Observateur et Arlequin aux Salons, n. d. [1822], p. 19.
• E.–J. Delécluze, “Beaux–Arts: Exposition Salon de 1822 (9e article),” Le Moniteur universel 2, no. 162 (June 11, 1822), p. 824.
• Arthur Dinaux, “Boilly,” in Archives Historiques et Littéraires du Nord de la France et du Midi de la Belgique 6 (Valenciennes, 1847), p. 203
• Henry Harrisse, L.–L. Boilly, peintre, dessinateur et lithographe: Sa vie et son oeuvre, 1761–1845 (Paris, 1898), p. 84, no. 46; also cited pp. 39, 98.
• Paul Marmottan, Le Peintre Louis Boilly (1761–1845) (Paris, 1913), pp. 156–57.
• Seymour de Ricci, Musée Cognacq-Jay (Paris, 1929), p. 12, under cat. 8.
• E. Jonas, Collections léguées à la ville de Paris par Ernest Cognacq (Paris, 1930), p. 11, under cat. 8.
• André Mabille de Poncheville, Boilly (Paris: Librarie Plon, 1931), p. 156.
• André Vantoura and O. H. Gasnier, eds., Dessins français de Prud’hon à Daumier, Fribourg, 1966, n. p., cited under no. 11.
• Heim Gallery, From Poussin to Puvis de Chavannes: A Loan Exhibition of French Drawings from the Collection of the Musée des Beaux Arts at Lille, exh. cat. (London, 1974), citied under no. 4.
• Francis Russell, “Saleroom Discoveries,” Burlington Magazine 119, no. 887 (February 1977), p. 153 [author confuses the painting in the Musée Cognacq-Jay with the original version].
• John Stephen Hallam, “The Genre Works of Louis-Leopold Boilly,” Ph. D. diss., University of Washington, 1979 (Ann Arbor: Univeristy Microfilms, 1985), p.112.
• Thérèse Burollet, Musée Cognacq-Jay: Peintures et Dessins (Paris, 1980), pp. 40–42, citied under no. 9.
• Marianne Delafond, Louis Boilly 1761-1845, exh. cat. (Musée Marmottan, 1984), under cat. 36.
• The Burlington Magazine 126, no. 976 (July 1984), p. 463 (ill. 87).
• Carol S. Eliel,” Form and Content in the Genre Works of Louis-Léopold Boilly,” Ph. D. diss., New York University, 1985 (Ann Arbor: Univeristy Microfilms, 1986), pp. 42-44, fig. 25.
• Richard R. Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800–1900 (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), pp. 10 (ill.), 11, 13 (ill.), 117.
• Annie Scottez-De Wambrechies and Sylvain Laveissière, eds., Boilly 1761/1845: Un Grand Peintre Française de la Révolution à la Restauration, exh. cat. (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 1989), pp. 128-9, under cat. 46, ill.
• Susan L. Siegfried, “The Artist as Nomadic Capitalist: The Case of Louis–Léopold Boilly,” Art History 13, no. 4 (December 1990), pp. 517–26, 518 (ill.), 535.
• Cara Dufour Denison, French Master Drawings: From the Pierpont Morgan Library, exh. cat. (Musée du Louvre/Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993), pp. 212, under cat. 97, ill.
• Susan L. Siegfried, The Art of Louis–Léopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France (New Haven and London, 1995), pp. 9–16, 10 (ill.),12 (det. ill.), 27, 63.
• Mark Swartz, “The Movings: Louis–Leopold Boilly at the Art Institute fo Chicago: You Are What You Own,” Chicago Reader (October 4, 1996), pp. 50–51 (ill.).
• Kimbell Art Museum, Calendar: Guide to Upcoming Exhibitions, Program and Services (September 1995–January 1996), pp. 13–14 (ill.).
• Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, “The Exceptional Woman,” Art Bulletin 79 (December 1997), pp.
• Étienne Bréton and Pascal Zuber, “ Boilly au Salon,” Boilly: 1791-1845. Exh. cat. (Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, 2011), p. 63. p. 67, p. 216, cat. 144.

• Paris, Salon, Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans, exposés au Musée Royal des Arts, 1822, cat. 121.
• New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Consulat–Empire–Restauration: Art In Early XIX Century France, April 21–May 28, 1982, pp. 74–75 (ill.), 87–88.
• Ft. Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, The Art of Louis-Leopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France, November 4, 1995–January 12, 1996; Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, February 4–April 28, 1996.
• Minneapolis, Institute of Art, Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism, June 8–September 7, 2003, cat. 87; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 7, 2003–January 4, 2004.
• Lille, France, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Louis-Léopold Boilly, November 4, 2011- February 6, 2012. cat. 144.

In the possession of Louis-Léopold Boilly; his sale, Paris, April 13–14, 1829, lot 4; sold to James-Alexandre, comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier (died 1855), Paris [Harrisse 1898]; Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier Sale, Paris, March 21–April 4, 1865, lot 225; sold to Sauvage [see Hippolyte Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d’art faites en France et à l’étranger pendant les XVIIIme et XIXme siècles, Paris, 1911-1912]. Comtesse de Gramont d’Aster (1855–1905), Paris by 1898 [according to Harrisse 1898]. Pierre Thomas, comte de Pange (1875–1946), Paris. Private collection in U.S.A. [New York 1982]; Wildenstein and Co., New York, by 1982; sold to the Art Institute, 1982.