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Panel with fantastic bird


Album of Chinese Ornament Panels
After: Jean-Baptiste Pillement (French, 1728–1808)
Jean Jacques Avril, père (French, 1744–1831)
Second half of the 18th century

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 35.5 x 24.8 cm (14 x 9 3/4 in.)
Mount: 43.2 x 27.8 cm (17 x 10 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number30.1214.3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Riotor [1930], vol. 2, cf. pl. 32
DescriptionPlate E 3 from Cahier de cartels chinois
InscriptionsIn plate lower left: J. Pillement Inv et del.
In plate lower right: J. J. Avril Sculp.
In plate upper left: E
In plate upper right: 3
ProvenanceG. Mathias; from whom purchased by MFA, July 1930.