Village Wedding (1785): Art, History and Details

Village Wedding (1785) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753–1820); Nicolas Antoine Taunay (French, 1755–1830).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Village Wedding
• Date: 1785
• Creator attribution: Charles-Melchior Descourtis (French, 1753–1820); Nicolas Antoine Taunay (French, 1755–1830)
• Culture: France, late 18th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: PR - Lavis manner
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1939.166

Collection credit

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

Further reading listed by the museum

• Milliken, William. "The Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection Gift of Leonard C Hanna." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 6 (June 1939): 84-115

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