Portrait of Nicolas Deyeux
1822
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.7 × 17.4 cm (5 7/16 × 6 7/8 in.); Sheet: 32.8 × 24.7 cm (12 15/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
41073
Art Historical Context
**Portrait of Nicolas Deyeux by Jules Boilly, in 1822, the elegance of early 19th French portraiture. Jules Boilly, son of the renowned painter Louis-Léopold Bo, was a skilled draftsman who embraced emerging printmaking techniques. This intimate likeness, housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints and Drawings, reflects the post-Napoleonic era's fascination with personal commemoration amid France's Restoration period, when individual identities were increasingly documented through accessible media. Printed as a lithograph in black ink on ivory wove paper (image: 13.7 × 17.4 cm; sheet: 32...