Village Wedding
Charles-Melchior Descourtis · 1785 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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Charles-Melchior Descourtis used the same technique as Jean-François Janinet to create passages of tone with almost no traces of tool work. He also superimposed a limited number of colors—yellow, red, blue, carmine, and black—to produce a variety of tints.
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- Maker
- Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753–1820), after Nicolas Antoine Taunay (French, 1755–1830)
- Date
- 1785
- Medium
- Lavis-manner color engraving and etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 36.7 x 27.6 cm (14 7/16 x 10 7/8 in.); Border: 30.7 x 23.3 cm (12 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- France
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
