''Distribution of Wine and Food on the Champs-Elysées'' (French: ''Distribution de vin et de comestibles aux Champs-Elysées'') is an 1822

genre painting Genre painting (or petit genre) is the painting of genre art, which depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity ca ...

by the French

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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 ...

. It shows a scene on the Champs-Elysées in

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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 Restoration era, the ceremony was held annually on 25 August to commemorate Saint Louis. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1822 at the

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along with another of Boilly's paintings '' Moving Day''. Today it is in the collection of the

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in Paris, having been acquired in 1902.Musée Carnavalet
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