La Bonne Aventure, 1738

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Medium

engraving with etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate (cut within platemark at right): 40.3 x 30 cm (15 7/8 x 11 13/16 in.)

sheet: 47.4 x 31.8 cm (18 11/16 x 12 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Katharine Shepard Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1700), no. 34

Accession Number

2005.85.1

Artists / Makers

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

François Boucher (artist after) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: F Boucher inv; lower center in plate: LA BONNE AVENTURE / Se vend à Paris Chez Huquier / Avec Priv. du Roi; lower right in plate: P. Aveline Sculpsit

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher

Bibliography

1930: Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XIIIe siècle. Paris, 1930 - 1977.

2004: Christopher Mendez. Proofs and Prints Published by Huquier. London, 2004: no. 6a.