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Distribution Of Wine And Food On The Champs-Elysées
''Distribution of Wine and Food on the Champs-Elysées'' (French: ''Distribution de vin et de comestibles aux Champs-Elysées'') is an 1822 genre painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly. It shows a scene on the Champs-Elysées in Paris during the Fête du Roi, when wine and food were issued to the populace. It depicts the disorderly crowd clambering over each other to gain access to the food and alcohol. During the Bourbon Restoration in France, Restoration era, the ceremony was held annually on 25 August to commemorate Louis IX of France, Saint Louis. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1822 at the Louvre along with another of Boilly's paintings ''Moving Day (painting), Moving Day''. Today it is in the collection of the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, having been acquired in 1902. References Bibliography * Davidson, Denise Z. ''France After Revolution: Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order''. Harvard University Press, 2007. * Noon, Patrick & Bann, Stephen. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Léopold Boilly
Louis-Léopold Boilly (; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) was a French painter and draftsman. 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 Ancien Régime, monarchical France, the French Revolution, the First French Empire, Napoleonic Empire, the Bourbon Restoration in France, Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy. His 1800 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, the son of a local wood sculptor. A self-taught painter, Boilly began his career at a very young age, producing his first works at the age of twelve or thirteen. In 1774 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
