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The Card Sharp on the Boulevard

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The Card Sharp on the Boulevard
ArtistLouis-Léopold Boilly
Year1806
TypeOil on panel, genre painting
Dimensions24 cm × 33 cm (9.4 in × 13 in)
LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

The Card Sharp on the Boulevard is an oil on panel genre painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly, from 1806.[1] [2] It is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington.[3]

It depicts a scene on the Boulevard du Temples in Napoleonic era Paris, with a conjuror or card sharp on the right, entertaining a crowd. A group of children and women seem to be vividly interested by the tricksters actions. The artist added a self-portrait of himself in a bicorne hat amongst the group of spectators.[4]

Voilly exhibited the painting at the Salon of 1808 at the Louvre, along with a pendant piece Young Savoyards Showing Their Marmot.[5] It was also displayed at the Salon of 1814, which was hastily organised following the Bourbon Restoration.</ref>

References

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  1. ^ Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century. National Gallery of Art, 2000. p.50
  2. ^ Eitner p.3
  3. ^ https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.111638.html
  4. ^ https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.111638.html
  5. ^ Bailey p.348

Bibliography

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  • Bailey, Colin B. The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting. Yale University Press, 2003.
  • Eitner, Lorenz. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century: Before impressionism. National Gallery of Art, 2000.