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Johann Georg Wille and Pierre-Alexandre Wille

The Good Woman of Normandy

1770

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Johann Georg Wille and Pierre-Alexandre Wille

The Good Woman of Normandy

Artist: Johann Georg Wille
Artist: Pierre-Alexandre Wille

The Good Woman of Normandy

1770

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 268 x 203 mm. (10 9/16 x 8 in.) Plate: 262 x 195 mm. (10 5/16 x 7 11/16 in.) Image: 187 x 165 mm. (7 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Garrett Collection

Object Number 1984.81.787

T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (lugt supp. 555c).

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "1624" Verso: lower center in graphite "Bon Femme de Normandie"; lower left in graphite "al/"; lower right in graphite "£8"; lower right in graphite indecipherable

Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett

Artist

Johann Georg Wille

German, 1715-1808

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Pierre-Alexandre Wille

French, 1748-1821

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A good husband. - A total of 27 Fr. 50 Cts. - Very good. Take the bill to my wife who'll pay you... - (this right beggar Macaire isn't half content to have a wife to pay his debts!)... - Yes, I've an excellent wife who works like a slave, deprives herself of everything, who sacrifices her life for me... a wife who adores me. But I'm not ungrateful. She already has eight children and I'd like her to have twelve... - (Bertrand) There's a happy woman!!!

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The Chevalier des Adrets is the lover of a woman of the world. He is amiable and fervent, he pretends to be passionate and devoted... one day, an alleged bailiff and an alleged bill of exchange fall like a clap of thunder into the midst of the most tender effusion of feeling... "Oh! My God!! The Baron de Wormspire, a so-called friend, has had the impudence to have me thrown into prison... He's ruined my good fortune, separated me from what I love! Oh! Friends!! What are friends?... There's no such thing as a friend!!!..." The poor woman, poor dupe, casts off her jewels, gives him everything she can, borrows, ruins herself, only to discover too late that her knight is only a knight of industry, a right Robert Macaire.

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