Johann Georg Wille and Thomiers
Claude Nicolas Le Cat
1746
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 217 x 132 mm. (8 9/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
Plate: 196 x 120 mm. (7 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Image: 178 x 104 mm. (7 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.934
Portrait of French surgeon Claude Nicolas Le Cat. For another impression of this print, see 1946.112.933.
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).
Le Blanc, Charles. Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Jean Georges Wille, graveur Le graveur en taille douce, 1 (Leipzig: R. Weigel, 1847).
Entries: 170. Millimeters. Inscriptions. States. Described. Ms. notes [UkBM]; additional states.
Apell, Aloys. Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler, oder Lexikon der vorzüglichsten Kupferstecher des XIX. Jahrhunderts welche in Linienmanier gearbeitet haben, sowie Beschreibung ihrer besten und gesuchtesten Blätter (Leipzig: Alexander Danz, 1880): pp. 459-471.
Lawrence, H. W., Basil Lewis Dighton. French line engravings of the late eighteenth century (London: Lawrence and Jellicoe, Ltd., 1910): pp. 88.
Entries: 170. Millimeters. Inscriptions. States. Described. Ms. notes [UkBM]; additional states.
Apell, Aloys. Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler, oder Lexikon der vorzüglichsten Kupferstecher des XIX. Jahrhunderts welche in Linienmanier gearbeitet haben, sowie Beschreibung ihrer besten und gesuchtesten Blätter (Leipzig: Alexander Danz, 1880): pp. 459-471.
Lawrence, H. W., Basil Lewis Dighton. French line engravings of the late eighteenth century (London: Lawrence and Jellicoe, Ltd., 1910): pp. 88.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower center, in plate, four lines of text beginning "Claude Nicolas Le Cat / des Academies de Paris, Londres [ ...]"; above image, upper center, in plate "W"; below image, lower left, in plate "Peint par Thomiers"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1686"
Markings: CM: unidentified (possibly Gustav von Franck, Lugt 1152); Claghorn; Garrett
