Louis leupold boilly biography

French painter and draftsman (–)

Louis-Léopold Boilly (French pronunciation:[lwileɔpɔl(d)bwɑji]^ⓘ; 5 July – 4 January ) was a French painter and draftsman.

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A creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings documenting French middle-class social life. His life and work spanned the eras of monarchical France, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy.

His painting Un Trompe-l'œil introduced the term trompe-l'œil ("trick the eye"), applied to the technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions, though the "unnamed" technique itself had existed in Greek and Roman times.

Life and career

Boilly was born in La Bassée in northern France,^[3] the son of a local wood sculptor.^[4] A self-taught painter, Boilly began his career at a very young age, producing his