Jules BOILLY (Paris 1796 - 1874) Moses Gushing... Lot 35

Jules BOILLY (Paris 1796 - 1874) Moses Gushing Water from the Rock; The Multiplication of the Loaves after Murillo Pair of original canvases 24.5 x 60 cm Both are annotated on the reverse of the stretchers "J.Boilly 1851". La Multiplication des pains is signed and dated lower right: "Copie / Murillo d'après par / J. Boilly / 1851". (Accidents) Provenance: Sale of the Jules Boilly estate, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, (Maître Delbergue-Cormon), December 16, 1874, no. 265 and 266. Repetition of the paintings Murillo created for the Hospital de la Caridad in Seville, on the theme of acts of charity from the Old and New Testaments.