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- Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761 - 1845)
- The Dead Mouse
- France
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- Date: 1790s
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Image size: 40 x 31.2 cm
- Inv: P435
- Location: Boudoir
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- The painting illustrates Boilly's tight and polished painterly technique, reminiscent of the Dutch seventeenth-century fijnschilders (literally 'fine painters') such as Gerrit Dou. The latter were extremely fashionable in France during the late eighteenth century.
The intrusion of a mouse into the safe enclosure of the domestic sphere serves as a pretext for the emotional embrace between a mother and her son.
The mother and little boy recur in other works by the artist. The velvet red chair was likely a studio prop; it appears in Boilly's 'Sorrows of Love', also in the Wallace Collection (P479).
The conservation of 'The Dead Mouse' was made possible in 2018 by the generous support of Étienne Bréton/Saint Honore Art Consulting and Pascal Zuber Art Conseil.
- The painting illustrates Boilly's tight and polished painterly technique, reminiscent of the Dutch seventeenth-century fijnschilders (literally 'fine painters') such as Gerrit Dou. The latter were extremely fashionable in France during the late eighteenth century.