Johann Georg Wille and Marie Louis Adelaide Boizot
Charles III the Fat
1737
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 145 x 103 mm. (5 11/16 x 4 1/16 in.)
Image: 142 x 100 mm. (5 9/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.973
Profile portrait of king wearing wreath.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "Boizot del"; in image, lower center, in plate "Charles III, dit Le Gras / Empereur / XXVIIIe Roy de France [...]"; in image, lower right, in plate "J.G. Will Sculp."; below image, lower right, in graphite "2d state" Verso: lower left in graphite "97"
Markings: CM: Claghorn, Garrett
