Johann Georg Wille and Pierre Le Sueur
Franciscus Chicoyneau
1743
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 209 x 131 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 3/16 in.)
Image: 164 x 126 mm. (6 7/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.932
Portrait of French physician François Chicoyneau. For another impression of this print, see 1984.81.931.
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: below image, lower left, in plate "P. Le Sueur pinxit"; below image, lower center, in plate, three lines of text beginning "Franciscus Chicoyneau, / Regi a sanctioribus [...]"; below image, lower right, in plate "J.G. Will Sculp. 1744."; below image, lower right, in graphite "3d State"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1688" Verso: lower center in red chalk "3"; lower center in graphite "140"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett
