Village Wedding
- 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.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
France, late 18th century
About
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.
