Two Standing Figures (Study for A Game of Billiards)
Medium
black chalk with gray and brown-black chalk, with stumping, framing lines in brown-black chalk
Dimensions
31.2 × 27.3 cm · sheet: 31.2 × 26.6 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Accession Number
2008.382
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About this artwork
Louis-Léopold Boilly made these two figure studies for his painting A Game of Billiards (see photo). In the final composition, the left figure from the study appears toward the right end of the billiard table, and the other figure appears at the left end. Boilly's genre scenes like A Game of Billiards-animated with a variety of participants-made him the premier chronicler of Parisian life from the Revolutionary to the Restoration periods. In the drawing, Boilly concentrated on the isolated figur...