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Pierre-Alexandre Aveline after François Boucher

Two Tritons and a Swan, in or after 1736

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series Title

Second Livre de Fontaines

Medium

etching

Dimensions

sheet: 25.4 x 15.2 cm (10 x 6 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Regina Slatkin

Accession Number

1984.91.6

Artists / Makers

Pierre-Alexandre Aveline (artist) French, probably 1702 - 1760

François Boucher (artist after) French, 1703 - 1770

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Inscription

lower left in plate: F.Boucher inv; lower center in plate: Huquier ex. C.P.R.; lower right in plate: P.Aveline Sculp.

Provenance

Mrs. Charles E. Slatkin [1909-1999]; gift 1984 to NGA.

Associated Names

Slatkin, Charles E., Mrs.

Exhibition History

1994: Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, as Fountain with Two Tritons and a Swan.

Bibliography

1978: Jean-Richard 1978, 220.

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