In a long career that spanned the French Revolution the rise and fall of Napoleon and the Bourbon Restoration LouisLeopold Boilly 17611845 created innovative and daring paintings in the midst of the most turbulent times. Bringing together two dozen of Boillys worksthe majority of which have never before been publishedthis handsome volume includes portraiture scenes of seduction and groundbreaking representations of raucous Parisian street life. A master technician with acute powers of observ