"Rare Drawing In Lead Pencil "les Gazetiers" Signed By Louis-léopold Boilly (5 July 1761 -1845) Col."
Rare and exceptional framed graphite drawing by Louis-Léopold Boilly executed around 1830 on strong fine-grained paper depicting an outdoor scene in a square with a kiosk of busy people sitting or not on straw chairs, attentive to reading the "Gazette"; a remarkable scene of incredible finesse that only graphite in the hands of a great recognized artist can render in details of incredible finesse and expression. The well-detailed and very well-typed faces of a troubled era where information was becoming one of the elements of the life of society, subject to debate .... As is the case in this beautiful work of the "Grand Master" Louis Léopold Boilly who signed this well-preserved and properly framed drawing at the bottom right (he was born on July 5, 1761 in La Bassée and died in Paris on January 4, 1845. A well-preserved drawing due to its medium born for the finesse of the line and which comes from an important Swiss collection