Jules BOILLY (PARIS 1796-1874). - Lot 12

Jules BOILLY (PARIS 1796-1874). Louis XVII (1785-1795) and the Simon couple in the Temple prison. Original canvas. Height 67.8 cm; Width: 56.4 cm. Provenance : - Wildenstein Collection; his sale [Collection de Monsieur X...], Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 19, 1911, lot 9 (as ' Louis-Léopold Boilly ' - with mention of a signature). - Former collection of Count Jacques de Vienne (1874-1965), president of the Société Hippique Française, Paris ; - Preserved by his descendants. Bibliography : - G. Lenôtre, Romances of the French Revolution, London, 1908 (trans. F. Lees), I, p. 221, under note 2 (as. Boilly'). - G. Lenôtre, Vieilles maisons, vieux papiers, Paris, 1948, second series, n.p. (as 'an unpublished painting by Boilly'), detail of a reproduction illustrated in black and white. - P. Marmottan, Le peintre Louis Boilly (1761-1845), Paris, 1913, p. 235 (as 'a very fine painting of quality, which, in our opinion, can only be attributed to the master').