The Card Sharp on the Boulevard

The Card Sharp on the Boulevard is an oil on panel genre painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly, from 1806.

[3] It depicts a scene on the Boulevard du Temples in Napoleonic era Paris, with a conjuror or card sharp on the right, entertaining a crowd.

The artist added a self-portrait of himself in a bicorne hat amongst the group of spectators.

[4] Voilly exhibited the painting at the Salon of 1808 at the Louvre, along with a pendant piece Young Savoyards Showing Their Marmot.

[5] It was also displayed at the Salon of 1814, which was hastily organised following the Bourbon Restoration. This article about a nineteenth-century painting is a stub.