Lover Surprised
by DESCOURTIS, Charles-Melchior, Coloured aquatint, 462 x 370 mm
This work was made after a painting by Jean Frederic Schall.
Descourtis was a pupil of Jean-Fran�ois Janinet and, like him, specialized in the production of colour prints using aquatint and wash-manner. From the later 1790s he engraved numerous works after Jean-Fr�d�ric Schall, notably the series of illustrations to Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s novel Paul et Virginie (1788).