Julien-Léopold Boilly (; 30 August 1796 – 14 June 1874), also known as Jules Boilly, was a French

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noted for his album of

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s ''Iconographie de l'Institut Royal de France'' (1820–1821) and his booklet ''Album de 73 portraits-charge aquarellés des membres de l'Institut'' (1820) containing

watercolor Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth English; see American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting metho ...

caricature A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary, ...

s of seventy-three famous mathematicians, in particular the French mathematician

Adrien-Marie Legendre Adrien-Marie Legendre (; ; 18 September 1752 – 9 January 1833) was a French people, French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics. Well-known and important concepts such as the Legendre polynomials and Legendre transforma ...

, the only known portrait of him. Born in

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on 30 August 1796, he was a son of the genial painter-engraver

Louis-Léopold Boilly Louis-Léopold Boilly (; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) was a French painter and draftsman. A creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings documenting French middle-class social life. His life and work ...

. Admitted to the ''

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'' at

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15 December 1806, he painted portraits and illustrated books with lithographs. He also collected

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s.Narisse 1898:44. He died on 14 June 1874. File:Cortege Boilly.jpg, alt=, Cortège de l'empereur de Chine File:François Adrien Boieldieu by Julien Boilly.jpg, alt=, François-Adrien Boieldieu 1825 File:Jean-Baptiste Stouf caricature par Julien Léopold Boilly.jpg, alt=, Jean-Baptiste Stouf File:Legendre.jpg, His caricatural depiction of

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1796 births 1874 deaths 19th-century French painters French draughtsmen French male painters French portrait painters French watercolourists Painters from Paris 19th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub