COLLECTION NAME:
Walter B. Denny World Art & Architecture Images
Record
ID_Number:
WBD_09188
Creator name:
Boilly, Louis Leopold
Creator dates:
1761-1845
Creator nationality:
French
Title:
Portrait of a Boy
Date:
ca. 1805
Date type:
creation
Repository name:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Repository name variant:
Met, the
Repository location:
New York, New York
Repository_inventory_ number:
2019.21
Style_Period:
19th century
Style_Period name variant:
Nineteenth century
Subject:
portraits
Subject:
boys
Subject:
costume (mode of fashion)
Subject:
toys (recreational artifacts)
Subject:
balls (object genres)
Subject:
dolls
Subject:
ottoman footstools
Subject:
backdrops
Culture:
French
Category:
Paintings
Work_type:
oil painting (visual work)
Material_Technique:
oil on canvas
Measurement:
72.3 × 59.4 cm
Copy_Source:
digital image
Image_Source:
Walter Denny
Note:
From the MMA site, the boy depicted is "dressed stylishly in emulation of Mamluk warriors who came to Paris with Napoleon from Egypt after 1798."
Rights Reproduction & Access:
Duplication rights - Walter Denny
Filename:
WBD_09188.JPG
