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Louis VI the Large

Johann Georg Wille, Marie Louis Adelaide Boizot

Louis VI the Large

1737

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Johann Georg Wille, Marie Louis Adelaide Boizot

Louis VI the Large

1737

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 149 x 109 mm. (5 7/8 x 4 5/16 in.) Image: 139 x 96 mm. (5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.978
Profile portrait of king wearing crown.
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: in image, lower left, in plate "Boizot del"; in image, lower center, in plate "Luois VI, dit le Gros / XXXIXe Roy de France [...]"; in image, lower right, in plate "J.G. Will Sculp."; below image, lower right, in graphite "2d state / 103"

Markings: CM: Claghorn, Garrett

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Johann Georg Wille

German, 1715-1808
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Marie Louis Adelaide Boizot

French, 1744 - 1800
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