Jules BOILLY (PARIS 1796-1874). Louis XVII (1785-1795) and the Simon couple in the Temple prison. Original canvas. Height 67,8 cm ; Width : 56,4 cm. Wildenstein Collection; his sale [Collection de Monsieur X...], Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 May 1911, lot 9 (as 'Louis-Léopold Boilly' - with mention of a signature). Former collection of Count Jacques de Vienne (1874-1965), President of the Société Hippique Française, Paris; It has since remained in the family by descent. G. Lenôtre, Romances of the French Revolution, London, 1908 (trans. F. Lees), I, p. 221, under note 2 (as 'Boilly'). G. Lenôtre, Vieilles maisons, vieux papiers, Paris, 1948, second series, n.p. (as 'an unpublished painting by Boilly'), detail reproduced in black and white. P. Marmottan, Le peintre Louis Boilly (1761-1845), Paris, 1913, p. 235 (as 'a very fine painting of quality, which, in our opinion, can only be attributed to the master').