French engraver, portraitist, illustrator and printmaker
Pierre-Alexandre Aveline (1702–1760) was a French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker.
Biography
Aveline was born in
Paris into a family of artists, including his father
Pierre Aveline and brother
Antoine Aveline. In 1737 he joined the
Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) in Paris.[1] He primarily worked with copperplate in his engraving. He is best known for his reproductions of other artists' works. For example, The Signboard of the Gersaint Gallery is a reproduction of L'Enseigne de Gersaint by
Antoine Watteau.
Portalis, Roger; Béraldi, Henri (1880).
"Aveline (Pierre)".
Les graveurs du dix-huitième siècle [Engravers of the Eighteenth Century] (in French). Vol. 1 (pt. 1). Paris: D. Morgand et C. Fatout. pp. 59–61 – via the Internet Archive.