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Johann Georg Wille and Pierre-Alexandre Wille

Le Maréchal des Logis

1789

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Le Maréchal des Logis

1789

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 578 x 466 mm. (22 3/4 x 18 3/8 in.) Plate: 507 x 400 mm. (19 15/16 x 15 3/4 in.) Image: 453 x 386 mm. (17 13/16 x 15 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.808
Subject based on the rescue of a woman from two bandits by barrack master ("maréchal de logis") Louis Gillet in 1783
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.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Recto: BL: "Gravé par J.G. Wille Graveur du Roi..."; LWRC: "Le Maréchal des Logis / Dédié à Sa Majesté Frédéric Guilaume II..."; BR: "d'après le Tableau par Pierre Alexandre Wille Son Fils Peintre du Roi". Verso: BL: Garrett stamp.

Markings: Garrett collector's stamp.

Artist

Johann Georg Wille

1714–1807

German, 1715-1808
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Artist

Pierre-Alexandre Wille

1747–1820

French, 1748-1821
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