Cleveland Museum of Art
Two Standing Figures (Study for A Game of Billiards)
Louis Léopold BoillyLinkedCulture matchlcp-9fd111bada72
- Date
- c. 1807
- Medium
- black chalk with gray and brown-black chalk, with stumping, framing lines in brown-black chalk
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 166668
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Louis-Léopold Boilly made these two figure studies for his painting A Game of Billiards (see photo). In the final composition, the left figure from the study appears toward the right end of the billiard table, and the other figure appears at the left end. Boilly's genre scenes like A Game of Billiards-animated with a variety of participants-made him the premier chronicler of Parisian life from the Revolutionary to the Restoration periods. In the drawing, Boilly concentrated on the isolated figures, simply sketching in rudimentary lines for legs and the table and carefully examining light effects on the upper part of the men's suits.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Provenance
- [Christie's, London (6 July 1976), no. 100, pl. 26]; [Shepherd Gallery, New York]; purchased in 1976.
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