LOUIS LEOPOLD BOILLY (FRENCH, 1761-1845) Bust Portrait of Auguste de Lamoignon Oval, oil on canvas, 21.5 x 17.75cm Provenance: With Christie's, London (label verso). Auguste de Lamoignon was the son of Francois-Chrétien de Lamoignon (the Marquis of Basville) and Elisabeth Berryer (lineage printed verso). Boilly was one of France's most noted and prolific painters of the late 18th/early 19th centuries, known for his portraiture and genre scenes of Parisian life and society during the French Revolution and the French Empire.

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