Village Wedding, 1785. Descourtis used the same technique as Jean-François Janinet to create passages of tone with almost no traces of toolwork. He also superimposed a limited number of colours-yellow, red, blue, carmine, and black-to produce a variety of tints.

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Keywords: 1753-1820, art, charles-melchior, cleveland, descourtis, museum, print