PIERRE-ALEXANDRE WILLE (1748-1837) Portrait of Canon Damien Roussel Pencil and wash Signed and dated upper right: P.A. Wille.....1788 In sheet form, pasted in full on its mount 21.5 x 19.5 cm Our portrait is similar to that of the canon depicted in Pierre Alexandre Wille's painting "La fête des bonnes-gens ou la récompense de la vertu" in the Musée des lumières in Langres. In the diary of his father, the famous engraver Jean-Georges Wille, the latter notes that "he told me he had drawn the portrait (of the canon with whom his son was then staying) as well as those of several persons of consideration".