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