Skip to main content
Maternal Cares

Johann Georg Wille and Pierre-Alexandre Wille

Maternal Cares

1783

Scroll

Maternal Cares

1783

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 498 x 385 mm. (19 5/8 x 15 3/16 in.) Plate: 446 x 355 mm. (17 9/16 x 14 in.) Image: 370 x 321 mm. (14 9/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.988
A mother tying her child's hat-bow.
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 de S.M. Imp et Roi et de Roi de Danemark"; LWRC: "Les Soins Maternels/ Dedié a Son Altesse Imperiale...etc"; BR: "d'aprés le tableau de son fils Pierre Alexandre WIlle Peintre du Roi"; BRC: (graphite in diamond) "1595". Verso: BL: Claghorn stamp; BR: Garrett stamp.

Markings: Claghorn and Garrett collectors' stamps.

Artist

Johann Georg Wille

1714–1807

German, 1715-1808
Meet Johann →

Artist

Pierre-Alexandre Wille

1747–1820

French, 1748-1821
Meet Pierre-Alexandre →

Explore the Collection Further

Johann Georg Wille and Gerard Terborch II
Fatherly Advice
1764
Johann Georg Wille and Pierre-Alexandre Wille
Maternal Cares
1783
Heinrich Guttenberg, Carl Wilhelm Weisbrod, and others
Second View of a Castle in Ruins near Chevreuse
1768–1805
Mary Cassatt, Modeste Leroy, and others
Maternal Caress
1890
Christian Gottlieb Geyser and Johann Georg Wille
Die fischerinn
1761–1802
Mary Cassatt
Maternal Caress
1890
Christian Gottlieb Geyser and Johann Georg Wille
Der fischer
1761–1802
Theresa Chromati
Stepping Towards My Darkest Bits to Hear a Familiar Song. The Words Have Changed, But the Melody Caresses Me All the Same (Woman Led by Her Intuition, Supported by Scrotum Flowers)
2019
Franz Edmund Weirotter and Johann Georg Wille
Fontaine près de Meulan
1754–1764
Cornelis Schut
Virgin, with Right Hand Upraised, Holding Child Caressing Her
1616–1654
Franz Edmund Weirotter and Johann Georg Wille
Ruines de l'abbaye de saint maur
1754–1764
Charles Simon Pradier and Baron François Pascal Gérard
Flore Caressée par Zephyre
1801