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French artist and engraver active 1769-1801

A. Duval was an artist and engraver active in France from 1769 to 1801.

Works

A dungeon, watercolor, 1769.

Duval's earliest known work is a highly detailed watercolor of a dungeon, signed and dated 1769. A later watercolor of a dungeon is signed and dated 1773. A drawing of a "design for the top and side of an oval, enamelled, gold, neo-classical snuffbox," at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, bears an identical signature and the date 1770.

Engravings of Duval's depictions of French furniture were published by Jean-François Daumont [fr] in Paris, c.1770.

His engravings of architectural studies by Juste-Nathan François Boucher [fr] (also called Boucher fils), published by Jacques-François Chéreau [fr] around 1775, include a stylized and dated signature "ADUVAL fecit 1774" with conjoined letters A and D.

  • Detail, engraving of 1774. Detail, engraving of 1774.

Four architectural studies of tombs drawn and engraved by the artist (inscribed "Duval inv. sculp. 1775") are cited by Jessen.

Later works include his engravings after illustrations by Antoine-Denis Chaudet, François Gérard, Jean-Guillaume Moitte, and Nicolas-Antoine Taunay for the first volume of the complete Oeuvres de Jean Racine published by Pierre Didot in Paris in 1801.

In museums

A. Duval's engravings are conserved at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and in Paris at the Louvre and the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA).

Gallery

References

  1. "3212 CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, DUNGEONS, WATERCOLOR". michaans.com. Retrieved July 26, 2024.
  2. "Design Duval 1770". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved July 28, 2024.
  3. The V&A's online note for the snuffbox design expresses some uncertainty about the identification of the artist: "The precise identity of Duval is unclear. Two Duvals, both without other recorded names , are possible candidates; they were respectively an engraver (e.g. after Boucher in 1774) and an architect (active at Versailles c.1780)." Further details about this architect have not been traced.
  4. ^ Thieme, p. 238.
  5. Guilemard, pp. 185 and 231.
  6. Jessen, pp. 12 and 142.
  7. Delafosse, cahier Q.
  8. Guilemard, p. 231.
  9. Jessen, p. 14.
  10. Boucher, three unpaginated images.
  11. Jessen, p. 238.
  12. "Oeuvres de Jean Racine". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved July 26, 2024.
  13. "Interiors, Furniture, Altars, Second Series". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  14. "A. Duval, Canapé". emuseum.mfah.org. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  15. "Bank, anonymous, after A. Duval, 1745-1775". www.rijksmuseum.nl. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  16. "DUVAL A." collections.louvre.fr. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  17. "IIIe volume de l'Oeuvre de J. Ch. Delafosse, cahier Q". bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr. Retrieved July 27, 2024.

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