Johann Georg Wille and Daniel Klein Le Jeune
Marie Josephe de Saxe
1746
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 391 x 283 mm. (15 3/8 x 11 1/8 in.)
Plate: 255 x 191 mm. (10 1/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Image: 237 x 173 mm. (9 5/16 x 6 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.918
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 "Marie Josephe, de Saxe / Dauphine de France / Neé [...]"; below image, lower left, in plate "Peint par Klein"; below image, lower right, in plate "et gravé par J.G.Will."; below image, lower center, in plate "AParis, chez Will, Quay des [...]"; below image, lower left, in graphite "LB No 108"; below image, lower right, in graphite "Best"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1647"; below image, lower right, in graphite indecipherable. Verso: lower center in graphite indecipherable; lower right in graphite "4217 / i/"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett
