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Print, L’Officieux Valet

This is a Print. It was designed by François-Thomas Mondon and published by Étienne Charpentier, Antoine Aveline and François-Thomas Mondon and print maker: Antoine Aveline. It is dated 1736 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is signed

Lettered in plate, lower left: Mondon le Fils Invenit; lettered lower center: Charpentier au Coq; lettered lower right: A. Aveline Sculpsit

It is inscribed

Lettered in plate, upper left: C; numbered upper right: 7; inscribed in graphite lower right below plate: Mondon; lettered in plate, lower center: L’Officieux Valet

Cite this object as

Print, L’Officieux Valet; Designed by François-Thomas Mondon (French, ca. 1709 – 1755); Print Maker: Antoine Aveline (French, 1691 – 1743); Published by Étienne Charpentier (French, 1704 – 1793); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-518-7

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