Louis Léopold Boilly, 1805 - Portrait of a Boy - fine art print

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Dressed stylishly, in emulation of Mameluke warriors who came to Paris with Napoleon from Egypt after 1798, this puckish boy clutches his toys jealously—even as he holds out the possibility of a ball toss. The early history of the portrait remains unknown, as does the child’s identity, though the well-appointed interior and overall effect of playful indulgence point to aristocratic origins. The canvas is considerably larger than the estimated 4,500 bust-length portraits that Boilly produced.

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This modern art piece of art with the title Portrait of a Boy was created by the romanticist master Louis Léopold Boilly in 1805. The original was painted with the size: 28 7/16 × 23 3/8 in (72,3 × 59,4 cm) and was painted with the techinque oil on canvas. The work of art is in the the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, 2019 (license - public domain). The creditline of the artwork is: Gift of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, 2019. On top of that, alignment is portrait and has a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which implies that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The painter Louis Léopold Boilly was an artist from France, whose style can primarily be classified as Romanticism. The Romanticist painter lived for a total of 84 years, born in the year 1761 and died in the year 1845.

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