Bonne Femme de Normandie (Good Woman of Normandy)

Johann George Wille, German, 1715 - 1808
after Pierre Alexandre Wille, French, 1748 - 1837

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Engraving on laid paper

Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 1/8 in. (24.7 × 18.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift in memory of Mrs. Harvey Fisk by her children

PR.974.394

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Grave par I. G. Wille Graveur du Roi/et de L. M. Imp. et Roy:; lower right: d'apres le Dessein de son Fils/Pierre Alexandre Wille.; center: BONNE FEMME DE NORMANDIE/Dedie a Monsieur Jean Valentin Meyer/Negociant a Hambourg; lower left: a Paris chez l'Auteur Quay des Augustins; lower right: Par som Ami et/Serviteur Wille.

Course History

History 47.02, The French Revolution, Darrin McMahon, Spring 2023

Exhibition History

Baroque Portraits, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 21, 1975-January 11, 1976.

Provenance

Elizabeth Richmond Fisk (1885-1966) [Mrs. Harvey Edward Fisk], Woodstock, Vermont; to her children, Elizabeth Fisk Tyler (1912-1978), Margaretta Fisk Paine (1915-1952); Ursula Fisk Clough (1917-1989), and Anne Fisk Howe (1921-2001), 1966; given to present collection, 1974.

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