Pierre-Alexandre Aveline
Illustration — L'Enseigne de Gersaint, after Antoine Watteau, 1732, Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg Pierre-Alexandre Aveline (1702–1760) was a French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker.
Also recorded as Pierre Aveline · Pierre Alexandre Aveline · Pierre-Alexander Aveline · Pierre, II Aveline
Pierre-Alexandre Aveline
Pierre Alexandre Aveline · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland · CC0
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- 1702 · Paris.
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- France
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- printmaker · illustrator · copper engraver · artist
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- French
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Illustration — L'Enseigne de Gersaint, after Antoine Watteau, 1732, Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg Pierre-Alexandre Aveline (1702–1760) was a French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker.
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The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Pierre-Alexandre Aveline is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Art Institute of Chicago, Finnish National Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery and Nationalmuseum.
Aveline was born in Paris into a family of artists, including his father Pierre Aveline and brother Antoine Aveline. In 1737 he joined the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) in Paris. He primarily worked with copperplate in his engraving. He is best known for his reproductions of other artists' works. For example, The Signboard of the Gersaint Gallery is a reproduction of L'Enseigne de Gersaint by Antoine Watteau.
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Pierre-Alexandre Aveline is recorded as printmaker, illustrator, copper engraver and artist.
The Coaxer, Arabesque, c. 1729–31, by Pierre-Alexandre Aveline
Pierre Alexandre Aveline · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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1702
Pierre-Alexandre Aveline was born in 1702 at Paris.
1762
Pierre-Alexandre Aveline died in 1762 at Paris.
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- 1.Aveline, Pierre-Alexandre.
- 2.Pierre-Alexandre Aveline.
- 3.Actes D'Etat-Civil D'Artistes Francais.
- 4.le muse. De Agostini. I. 1964.
- 5.Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France.
- 6.Le trébuchet.
- 7.Moïse présenté à la fille du pharaon.
- 8.L'Aigle et l'escarbot.
- 9.L'Enseigne.
- 10.Cita web https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/414301 Naissance de Bacchus
- 11.Cita web https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/414302 Enlèvement d'Europe
- 12.Cita web https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/394075 Sancho poursuivi par les marmitons
- 13.Cita web https://art.famsf.org/pierre-alexandre-aveline/la-villageoise-19633031083 La Villageoise
- 14.Les Charmes de la vie.
- 15.Carte des Postes de France.
- 16.Jupiter et Io.
- 17.Cita web http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/7/521108-La-belle-cuisiniere La Belle cuisinière
- 18.Cita web http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/8/521117-Le-Printemps Le Printemps
- 19.Cita web http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/9/521118-Lete L'été
- 20.Cita web http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/10/521119-Lautomne L'Automne
- 21.Cita web http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/11/521120-Lhiver L'Hiver
- 22.Cita web http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/27/548806-Sancho-poursuivi-par-les-marmitons Sancho poursuivi par les marmitons
- 23.Cita web http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/42/599035-Trois-Amours-assis-sur-des-dauphins-et-deux-tritons Trois amours assis sur deux dauphins et deux tritons
- 24.Cita web http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/51/549388-La-balancoire La Balançoire
- 25.L'Air.
- 26.L'Eau.
- 27.La Terre.
- 28.Le Feu.
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Art Institute of Chicago, Finnish National Gallery and Auckland Art Gallery
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