A. Duval was an artist and engraver active in France from 1769 to 1801.
Works
editDuval'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.[1] 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.[2][3]
Engravings of Duval's depictions of French furniture were published by Jean-François Daumont in Paris, c.1770.[4][5][6][7]
His engravings of architectural studies by Juste-Nathan François Boucher (also called Boucher fils), published by Jacques-François Chéreau around 1775, include a stylized and dated signature "ADUVAL fecit 1774" with conjoined letters A and D.[4][8][9][10]
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Detail, engraving of 1774.
Four architectural studies of tombs drawn and engraved by the artist (inscribed "Duval inv. sculp. 1775") are cited by Jessen.[4][11]
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.[12]
In museums
editA. Duval's engravings are conserved at the Metropolitan Museum in New York,[13] the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,[14] the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam,[15] and in Paris at the Louvre[16] and the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA).[17]
Gallery
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A dungeon, watercolor, 1773.
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Paphose, c.1771.
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Elevations of two altarpieces, after Boucher fils, 1774.
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References
edit- ^ "3212 CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, DUNGEONS, WATERCOLOR". michaans.com. Retrieved July 26, 2024.
- ^ "Design Duval 1770". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved July 28, 2024.
- ^ 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 [though the first has a recorded initial], are possible candidates; they were respectively an engraver (e.g. after Boucher in 1774) [i.e., A. Duval] and an architect (active at Versailles c.1780)." Further details about this architect have not been traced.
- ^ a b c Thieme, p. 238.
- ^ Guilemard, pp. 185 and 231.
- ^ Jessen, pp. 12 and 142.
- ^ Delafosse, cahier Q.
- ^ Guilemard, p. 231.
- ^ Jessen, p. 14.
- ^ Boucher, three unpaginated images.
- ^ Jessen, p. 238.
- ^ "Oeuvres de Jean Racine". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved July 26, 2024.
- ^ "Interiors, Furniture, Altars, Second Series". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
- ^ "A. Duval, Canapé". emuseum.mfah.org. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
- ^ "Bank, anonymous, after A. Duval, 1745-1775". www.rijksmuseum.nl. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
- ^ "DUVAL A." collections.louvre.fr. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
- ^ "IIIe volume de l'Oeuvre de J. Ch. Delafosse, cahier Q". bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
Bibliography
edit- Boucher, Juste-Nathan François. Receuil des Décorations intérieures par Juste-François Boucher fils; soixante planches reproduites en facsimilé d’après l’édition de Chereau (vers 1775), Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1904.
- Delafosse, Jean-Charles. Oeuvre de Jean-Charles Delafosse, vol. 3: Meubles, cahier Q, Paris: Jacques-François Chéreau, series published between 1760 et 1790.
- Guilemard, Désiré. Les maîtres ornemanistes: dessinateurs, peintres, architectes, sculpteurs et graveurs..., Paris: E. Plon, 1880.
- Jessen, Peter (1858-1926). Katalog der ornamentstich-sammlung des Kunstgewerbe-museums, mit 200 abbildungen, Leipzig: E.A. Seeman, 1894.
- Thieme, U., Vollmer, H., Willis, F. C., Becker, F. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart: unter Mitwirkung von 300 fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes, vol. 10, p. 238, Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1914.