Julien-Léopold Boilly (1796–1874), also known as Jules Boilly, was a French artist noted for his album of

lithograph Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone ( lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German ...

s ''Iconographie de l'Institut Royal de France'' (1820–1821) and his booklet ''Album de 73 portraits-charge aquarellés des membres de l’Institut'' (1820) containing

watercolor Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to ...

caricature A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary, a ...

s of seventy-three famous mathematicians, in particular the French mathematician

Adrien-Marie Legendre Adrien-Marie Legendre (; ; 18 September 1752 – 9 January 1833) was a French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics. Well-known and important concepts such as the Legendre polynomials and Legendre transformation are nam ...

, the only known portrait of him. Born in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

on 30 August 1796, he was a son of the genial painter-engraver

Louis-Léopold Boilly Louis-Léopold Boilly (; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) was a French painter and draftsman. A gifted creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings vividly documenting French middle-class social life. His ...

. Admitted to the ''

lycée In France, secondary education is in two stages: * ''Collèges'' () cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15. * ''Lycées'' () provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between ...

'' at

Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, ...

15 December 1806, he painted portraits and illustrated books with lithographs. He also collected

autograph An autograph is a person's own handwriting or signature. The word ''autograph'' comes from Ancient Greek (, ''autós'', "self" and , ''gráphō'', "write"), and can mean more specifically: Gove, Philip B. (ed.), 1981. ''Webster's Third New Inter ...

s.Narisse 1898:44. He died on 14 June 1874. File:Cortege Boilly.jpg, alt=, Cortège de l'empereur de Chine File:François Adrien Boieldieu by Julien Boilly.jpg, alt=,

François-Adrien Boieldieu François-Adrien Boieldieu (, also ) (16 December 1775 – 8 October 1834) was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart". His date of birth was also cited as December 15 by his biographer and writer Lucien Augé de Las ...

1825 File:Jean-Baptiste Stouf caricature par Julien Léopold Boilly.jpg, alt=, Jean-Baptiste Stouf

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1796 births 1874 deaths 19th-century French painters French draughtsmen French male painters French portrait painters French watercolourists Painters from Paris 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub