Jean-Jacques Avril "the elder" (1744–1831) was a French artist, reproductive engraver, printmaker born in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

who made about 540

engravings Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an in ...

, some of large dimensions. He was a pupil of

Johann Georg Wille Johann Georg Wille, or Jean Georges Wille (5 November 1715, near Biebertal - 5 April 1808, Paris) was a German-born copper engraver, who spent most of his life in France. He also worked as an art dealer. Life and work He was the eldest of seven ...

. He died in Paris in 1831. His prints bear addresses in the

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and the Rue du Petit Bourbon.

Works

Jean-Jacques Avril - The Knowledge stopping time

His engravings include:Bryan (1886–9) *''Study Wanting to Hold Back Time''; after

François-Guillaume Ménageot François-Guillaume Ménageot (1744–1816) was a French painter of religious and French historical scenes. A pupil of François Boucher (1703–1770), he went on to win the Grand Prix de Rome and become a director of the French Academy in Ro ...

*''La Vierge au linge''; after

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. *''Mars Going to Battle''; after Rubens. *''Mars Returning from Battle''; after the same. *''A Shepherd and Shepherdess''; called the ''Croc-en-jambe''; after the same. *''Apollo with the Seasons, dancing''; after

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. *''Diana and Actaeon''; after Albani. *''Diana and Callisto''; after the same. *''Venus revenging herself on Psyche''; after De Troy. *''Pygmalion and Galatea''; after Marillier. *''St. Genevieve''; after C. van Loo. *''Fishermen returning''; after

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. *''Travellers in a Storm''; after the same. *''The Shipwreck''; dated 1775; after the same. *''The Double Recompense of Merit''; after P. A. Wille, 1784. *''French Patriotism''; after the same. 1788. *''The Taking of Courtrai''; after Van der Meulen. 1782. *''The Passage of the Rhine''; after Berchem. *''Catherine II on her Travels''; after F. de Meys. 1790. *''Ulysses and Penelope''; after Le Barbier. *''Combat of the Horatii and Curiatii''; after the same. 1787.

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