François-Antoine AVELINE
Paris 1718 – Londres 1762 ou 1780
Two designers in a rocaille setting
Plate from a suite of seven ornaments in the rocaille style entitled Livre de Trophée
Engraving and etching after Jean Mondon
235 × 181 mm, trimmed to or within the platemark
Fine impression of an intermediate state between the first and second, with the letter « B » in the upper left and the number « 2 » in the upper right, but before the addresses of Mondon le Fils and A. Aveline, small spots in the upper part of the subject, soiling in the margins.
Provenance: F. A. Maglin (Lugt 1777, his signature with date 1891)
Reference: IFF 4 between i/ii and ii/ii, Le Blanc not described