Pierre-Alexandre Wille

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The last moments of a beloved woman

Pierre-Alexandre Wille (born July 19, 1748 in Paris , † after 1821 there ) was a French painter.

Life

Pierre-Alexandre Wille was a son of the artist Jean-Georges Wille . From 1761 to 1763 he was trained by Jean-Baptiste Greuze , later he continued his studies with Joseph-Marie Vien . In 1774 he was accepted at the Académie Royale. He specialized in genre scenes in his paintings, but also created pictures of political content that were engraved in copper by his father. After the French Revolution , it was rather quiet about will.

Works

Wille's works include the depiction of the last minutes of a beloved woman, which is in the city museum in Cambrai . There are also works of Willes in the castle of Blérancourt and possibly also in the Musée Carnavalet in Paris. Other works by Wille can be found in the Louvre , the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne , the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and numerous other museums.

  • The virtue lost

  • Le bouton de rose

  • Portrait of a boy

  • La joueuse de cistre , engraving by Johann Gotthard von Müller after a painting by Willes

Web links

Commons : Pierre-Alexandre Wille  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography on answers.com. According to this text, the picture in the Musée Carnavalet was attributed to Wille, but is probably not signed.
  2. ↑ Overview of the locations of Willes works
personal data
SURNAME Will, Pierre-Alexandre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH after 1821
Place of death Paris