Johann Georg Wille, Jean Chevalier
François Quesnay
1700-1799
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Johann Georg Wille, Jean Chevalier
François Quesnay
1700-1799
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 185 x 120 mm. (7 5/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Plate: 157 x 94 mm. (6 3/16 x 3 11/16 in.)
Image: 146 x 86 mm. (5 3/4 x 3 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.944
Bust portrait of man supporting his head on his hand.
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 "F. Quesnay / In ultrâque Medicinâ / Magister."; below image, lower left, in plate "J. Chevallier pinxit"; below image, lower right, in plate "J.G. Will. Sculp.", below image, lower right, in graphite "2d state"; below image, lower right, in graphtie diamond with "1689" Verso: lower center in graphite "139"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett