The Sorrows of Love (painting)
Painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly
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The Sorrows of Love (French: Les Malheurs de l'amour) is a 1790 genre painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly.[1][2] In the early stages of his career Boilly largely produced genre paintings and portraits before switching to the street scenes of Paris for which he is best known.[3]
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| Artist | Louis-Léopold Boilly |
| Year | 1790 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 45 cm × 55 cm (18 in × 22 in) |
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It was one of eleven works Boilly produced for an aristocrat from Avignon Antoine Joseph François Xavier Calvet de Lapalun, all of which feature various stages of love. In this case a woman is left distraught when a servant of her former lover returns her portrait, signalling that their relationship is over.[4]
Today the painting is in the Wallace Collection in London, having been acquired by Marquess of Hertford in 1863.[5] Another painting in the series The Visit Returned is also in the Wallace Collection.[6]
