Louis-Leopold Boilly (French: 1761-1845)

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Louis-Léopold Boilly (French: 5 July 1761 4
January 1845) was a French painter and draftsman.
A gifted creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings vividly documenting French middle-class social life. His life and work spanned the eras of monarchical France the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, the.
Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy. His 1800 painting Un Trompe-l'oeil introduced the termn trompe-laeil ('trick the eye"), applied to the technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions, though the "unnamed" technique itself had existed in Greek and Roman times.

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