a young bride displays great composure surrounded by her adoring groom and three bridesmaids, one surreptitiously gazing at him whilst ostensibly straightening the bride’s headdress, another looking to the heavens for her turn to come, with hands clasps beseechingly, the third demurely straightens the bride’s corsage, from the popular series ‘Recueil des Profiles et Grimaces’, a collection of 98 separately published original lithographs by François Séraphin Delpech of Boilly’s compositions, largely satirising various strata of French society. Louis Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) was something of a child prodigy before moving to Paris in the late 1780s, where he became a prolific painter of portraits and genre scenes. His experiences of the French Revolution, particularly during the Terror, coloured his view of the human condition and informed his output. He was highly regarded during his career, being made a chevalier of the Légion d’honneur in 1833