Lot 105: A SERIES OF 18TH CENTURY FRENCH MOUNTED ENGRAVINGS OF GREAT SCULPTORS BY VARIOUS ARTISTS from the exhibition 'Portraits of Artists and Related Subjects' at Trinity Fine Art, London, Dec. 1999, comprising, Nicolas Coustou (1658-1733) by C. Dupuis, 1730, after J. Legros’s painting of 1722, etching with engraving (400 x 282 mm; no. 24); Martin van den Bogaert called Desjardins (1637-1694) by G. Edelinck after Hyacinthe Rigaud, etching with engraving (466 x 353mm; no. 26); François Girardon (1628-1715) by P. Drevet, after J. Vivien, etching with engraving (484 x 363; no. 35); La Sculpture, a sculptor contemplating his bust of King Louis XV, by M.-M. Igonet, 1751, after J.-B.-M. Pierre, engraving (375 x 268mm; no. 104); with one from a different source, Antoine Coysevox, by Jean Audran, as his morceau de Réception at the Académie Royale in 1708 (37 x 26cm [sight]), framed and glazed (55.5 x 44.5), (5) PROVENANCE: CHARLES AVERY COLLECTION Charles Avery is a specialist in European sculpture, particularly Italian, French, English, Flemish and Dutch. A graduate in Classics at Cambridge University, he obtained a Diploma in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and a doctorate for published work from Cambridge. Having been Deputy Keeper of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum for twelve years (1966-79), and a Director of Christies for ten years, since 1990 he has been a highly respected, independent historian, consultant, writer and lecturer. His books include ‘Florentine Renaissance Sculpture’, 1970, ‘Giambologna the Complete Sculpture’, Phaidon, 1987, ‘Donatello: An Introduction’, John Murray, 1994; ‘Bernini, Genius of the Baroque’, Thames and Hudson, 1997 (paperback, 2006),  and ‘The Triumph of Motion: Francesco Bertos’, 2008.