Jean-Jacques Avril "the elder" (1744–1831) was a French artist, reproductive engraver, printmaker born in Paris who made about 540 engravings, some of large dimensions. He was a pupil of Johann Georg Wille. He died in Paris in 1831.[1]
His prints bear addresses in the Rue de la Huchette and the Rue du Petit Bourbon.[2]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Avril, Jean Jacques, 'the elder'". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 64.
