Moving Day (painting)

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Moving Day (Les Déménagements) is a genre painting by French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly, created in 1822. It is oil on canvas and measures 73 cm by 91.7 cm. The scene shows a Paris street near the Port-au-Blé, where a family carries their belongings, likely due to financial hardship. On the left, a dream-like image of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome appears as a capriccio. Boilly, known for his Paris scenes from the Revolutionary era onward, exhibited it at the Louvre's Salon in 1822 and hoped the Restoration government would purchase it for the nation, but that did not happen. The painting is now in the Art Institute of Chicago, which acquired it in 1982.