Date of Award
Spring 5-2-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art & Art History
First Advisor
Nebahat Avcioglu
Second Advisor
Tara Zanardi
Academic Program Adviser
Lynda Klich
Abstract
Privately held until it came into the Met collection, Toddler in Mamluk Costume by Louis-Léopold Boilly was not widely known and hasn’t been extensively studied. This thesis seeks place it in context and argues that it is likely a portrait of a girl, a niece of Napoléon I, Zénaïde Bonaparte.
Recommended Citation
Polk, Jessie, "Louis-Léopold Boilly’s Toddler in Mamluk Costume, circa 1803: Feminism and Orientalism in the Napoléonic Era" (2025). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/1343
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