![Charles-Melhior Descourtis - The Lover Caught Unawares [c.1790] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uDotxavj-B35uT8-RLnAKnsl7y0ALBM0M3toBDHIC-hAOXZNGXvQIqHKCGVuIG1ULdQBWYRgS60jZ-cRMswgLd1MM_efAanc-HwRVhbZRXy8cEQA5Fxsvvdi1TtcAU2j0=s0-d)
Charles-Melhior Descourtis - The Lover Caught Unawares [c.1790], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.
Charles-Melhior Descourtis (French, 1753 - 1820) was a pupil of Jean-François Janinet and, like him, specialised in the production of colour prints using aquatint and wash. From the later 1790s he engraved numerous works after Jean-Frédéric Schall, notably the series of illustrations to Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s novel Paul et Virginie (1788).
[Coloured aquatint, 46.2 x 37 cm]
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