Village Wedding by Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753–1820)

Medium

Lavis-manner color engraving and etching

Dimensions

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Classification

Print

Department

Prints

Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art

Credit

Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection

Accession Number

1939.166

Tags

male

About this artwork

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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