. McClure's magazine. gnault de Saint-Jean-dAngelyFrance was somewhat analogous to that of and of the Princess Visconti are both ex-cellent specimens of thework of this estimablepainter. Of the pictures whichtestify to the industryand talent of Louis-Leo-pold Boilly, who was bornat La Bassee, near Lille,on July 5, 1761, theLouvre possesses but onespecimen; namely, theArrival of a Diligence be-fore the coach-office inParis. This is undoubt-edly due to the fact thatwith the preoccupation ofthe public mind with theevents of the time, andthe prevailing taste forgreat historical pictures,Boillys ar

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. McClure's magazine. gnault de Saint-Jean-dAngelyFrance was somewhat analogous to that of and of the Princess Visconti are both ex-cellent specimens of thework of this estimablepainter. Of the pictures whichtestify to the industryand talent of Louis-Leo-pold Boilly, who was bornat La Bassee, near Lille,on July 5, 1761, theLouvre possesses but onespecimen; namely, theArrival of a Diligence be-fore the coach-office inParis. This is undoubt-edly due to the fact thatwith the preoccupation ofthe public mind with theevents of the time, andthe prevailing taste forgreat historical pictures,Boillys art, so sincereand so intimate in char-acter, was underesti-mated. It is certainlynot due to any lack ofindustry on the part ofthe painter. Even at theage of eleven years heundertook to paint, for areligious fraternity of hisnative town, two picturesrepresenting the miraclesof St. Roch. These stillexist, and they are said PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN. FROM A PAINTING BY IKl dhON, IN THE LOUVRE. tO lC 111 CI i 101 10 U S. ILS. 154 A CENTURY OF PAINTING.

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