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Louis II the Stammerer

Johann Georg Wille, Marie Louis Adelaide Boizot, and others

Louis II the Stammerer

1737

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Louis II the Stammerer

1737

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 161 x 117 mm. (6 5/16 x 4 5/8 in.) Plate: 150 x 107 mm. (5 7/8 x 4 3/16 in.) Image: 138 x 95 mm. (5 7/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.971
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 right, in plate "J.G. Will sculp"; in image, lower center, in plate "Louis II, dit le Begue / XXVIe Roy de France [...]"; below image, lower center, in plate "AParis chez Odieuvre [...]"; below image, lower left, in graphite "LB 96 1st state"; below image, lower right, in graphite "LB 220" Verso: center in graphite indecipherable

Markings: CM: Reverend J. Burleigh James (Lugt 1425); Claghorn; Garrett

Artist

Johann Georg Wille

1714–1807

German, 1715-1808
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Artist ?

Marie Louis Adelaide Boizot

1743–1799

French, 1744 - 1800
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Publisher

Michel Odieuvre

1686–1755

French, 1687-1756
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