Jean Jacques Avril, the Elder
Jean Jacques Avril, the Elder, worked as an engraver in the later eighteenth century, and his prints turn on the martial themes that preoccupied French art of the period: the departure for war and the disarming of Mars by Venus. The two sheets in this collection are engravings in their second state, as described by Dutuit, and their dates fall within 1778, though impressions may exist up to that year. Together they offer a compact view of Avril's burin work and of the allegorical subjects he chose to render.
2 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
