Study for "L'entree du Jardin Turc" (Primary Title)
Louis-Léopold Boilly, French, 1761 - 1845 (Artist)
This oil sketch is one of a number of figure studies for Boilly’s L’Entrée du Jardin Turc, a bustling genre painting that he exhibited with great success at the Salon of 1812. The three highly detailed figures, which emerge fully realized out of a plain background, reappear in the final painting amid the crowd near the Jardin Turc (Turkish Garden), a fashionable café and public pleasure garden in Paris’s Marais district. Here, a young street performer shows his pet marmot to an elegantly dressed man (a self-portrait of Boilly) and likely seeks his charity.
not signed; two labels on back of frame
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC
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