Village Wedding
Medium
Lavis-manner color engraving and etching
Dimensions
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Classification
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.