has info and links that point to info about this painting (best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate pages if necessary). So far, 4 works by this artist have been used here.
has the prior strip (which, sadly, still has no active hyperlinks &?@#!#%&!).
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1671 (March 23, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.
“Here the public views David’s enormous painting of Napoleon crowning Empress Josephine, which was exhibited in the Louvre on three separate occasions in 1808–10. Its display was widely reported in the newspapers. A man in military garb reads the description to enable viewers to identify the various figures in David’s picture, while Boilly scattered further portraits including his own, at far right, among the spectators. One of Boilly’s most ambitious compositions, painted in 1810 it was exhibited at the Galerie Lebrun, Paris, in 1826, in the first posthumous retrospective of works by David and his school.”
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438099
Interesting point: this painting is only 24×32 inches. The David painting, on the other hand, is gigantic—20×32 FEET, 120 times larger. Boilly might be saying, “So what’s the (literally) ’”big deal?"
Rugeirn: Per the wikimedia.org page, pointed to in my first comment, the Catalogue Entry at the painting’s museum online gallery page, you also point to, has a much longer Description.
Among other things, it says Boilly was well-known for genre scenes and for small-scale portraits, of which he claimed to have painted 4,500, most in single two-hour sittings.
David’s painting was commissioned by the Imperial household, which explains its size.
As far as I know, no commission was involved with Boilly’s painting, other than perhaps David offering his help, as detailed in the Catalogue Entry, after Boilly asked David for permission to copy his painting in this work; so, I’m not surprised by the size (for which Boilly was known; maybe, sans commission, David would have scaled his down as well).
SallyLin about 7 years ago
No comments? Even when Mr. Melcher nails it, there’s always comments!
DM2860 about 7 years ago
Seriously, this one is good!
Knightman Premium Member about 7 years ago
Captive crowd???
BE THIS GUY about 7 years ago
The painting Napoleon used to prove he had the biggest crowd at his coronation.
Linguist about 7 years ago
Some folks just don’t understand the big picture !
mabrndt Premium Member about 7 years ago
2 URLs (copy each as one line):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis-L%C3%A9opold_Boilly,_The_Public_Viewing_David%E2%80%99s_%22Coronation%22_at_the_Louvre,_1810.jpg
has info and links that point to info about this painting (best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate pages if necessary). So far, 4 works by this artist have been used here.
http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2013/10/09?comments=visible
has the prior strip (which, sadly, still has no active hyperlinks &?@#!#%&!).
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1671 (March 23, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.
wardtree about 7 years ago
Seriously, I really like this one. Nailed it, buddy!
danketaz Premium Member about 7 years ago
Time to fire up the Kiss-Cam.
Helen Ferrieux about 7 years ago
Band of pick-pockets let loose on the unsuspecting crowd.
UpaCoCoCreek Premium Member about 7 years ago
Tweet: Crowds still weren’t as big as mine!
Chris Sherlock about 7 years ago
Of course a short guy would use a Jumbotron.
J Short about 7 years ago
That guy in black and brown is ripped.
rugeirn about 7 years ago
“Here the public views David’s enormous painting of Napoleon crowning Empress Josephine, which was exhibited in the Louvre on three separate occasions in 1808–10. Its display was widely reported in the newspapers. A man in military garb reads the description to enable viewers to identify the various figures in David’s picture, while Boilly scattered further portraits including his own, at far right, among the spectators. One of Boilly’s most ambitious compositions, painted in 1810 it was exhibited at the Galerie Lebrun, Paris, in 1826, in the first posthumous retrospective of works by David and his school.”
www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438099
Interesting point: this painting is only 24×32 inches. The David painting, on the other hand, is gigantic—20×32 FEET, 120 times larger. Boilly might be saying, “So what’s the (literally) ’”big deal?"
mabrndt Premium Member about 7 years ago
Rugeirn: Per the wikimedia.org page, pointed to in my first comment, the Catalogue Entry at the painting’s museum online gallery page, you also point to, has a much longer Description.
Among other things, it says Boilly was well-known for genre scenes and for small-scale portraits, of which he claimed to have painted 4,500, most in single two-hour sittings.
David’s painting was commissioned by the Imperial household, which explains its size.
As far as I know, no commission was involved with Boilly’s painting, other than perhaps David offering his help, as detailed in the Catalogue Entry, after Boilly asked David for permission to copy his painting in this work; so, I’m not surprised by the size (for which Boilly was known; maybe, sans commission, David would have scaled his down as well).
David encouraged this work.