Julien-Léopold Boilly (1796–1874), also known as Jules Boilly, was a French artist noted for his album of lithographs 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 caricatures of seventy-three famous mathematicians, in particular the French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre, the only known portrait of him.
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30 August 1796 Paris, France
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Died |
14 June 1874 (aged 77)
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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