Artworks · Charles Melchior Descourtis

The Night, plate 1 from Paul et Virginie

1795 · Etching and engraving printed in yellow, blue, red, and black inks on paper

Image: 37.5 × 41.2 cm (14 13/16 × 16 1/4 in.); Sheet, cut within platemark: 42 × 47 cm (16 9/16 × 18 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Prayer, plate 6 from Paul et Virginie

1795 · Etching and engraving in yellow, blue, red, and black on ivory laid paper

Image: 37.5 × 41.2 cm (14 13/16 × 16 1/4 in.); Sheet, cut within platemark: 42 × 47.5 cm (16 9/16 × 18 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Arrival of Monsieur de la Bourdonnais, plate 3 from Paul et Virginie

1795 · Etching and engraving printed in yellow, blue, red, and black inks on ivory laid paper

Image: 37.5 × 41 cm (14 13/16 × 16 3/16 in.); Sheet, cut within platemark: 42 × 46.5 cm (16 9/16 × 18 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Departure, plate 4 from Paul et Virginie

1795 · Etching and engraving printed in yellow, blue, red, and black inks on ivory laid paper

Image: 37.5 × 41.2 cm (14 13/16 × 16 1/4 in.); Sheet, cut within platemark: 41.6 × 47.4 cm (16 7/16 × 18 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Fugitive Slave, plate 2 from Paul et Virginie

1795 · Etching and engraving printed in yellow, blue, red, and black inks on paper

Image: 37.5 × 41.2 cm (14 13/16 × 16 1/4 in.); Sheet, cut within platemark: 41 × 47 cm (16 3/16 × 18 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Finding Virginie's Body, plate 5 from Paul et Virginie

1795 · Etching and engraving, from four plates, in yellow, blue, red and black, on ivory laid paper

Image: 37.3 × 41 cm (14 11/16 × 16 3/16 in.); Sheet, cut within platemark: 41.5 × 47 cm (16 3/8 × 18 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

F: S: Wilhelmine de Prusse Princesse d'Orange et de Nassau &&

1791 · silk

height: 432 cm, width: 319 cm

Rijksmuseum

View of the Louvre and the Pont Neuf, from Vues des Tuileries)

1789 · Color aquatint with etching and engraving in black ink on cream laid paper

Image/plate: 39.8 × 61.8 cm (15 11/16 × 24 3/8 in.); Sheet: 46.7 × 64.5 cm (18 7/16 × 25 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Le Tambourin

1788 · Color aquatint, etching, and engraving

Image: 12 1/16 × 9 3/16 in. (30.7 × 23.4 cm) Sheet: 14 3/4 × 10 11/16 in. (37.5 × 27.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

La Foire de Village

1788 · Color aquatint, etching, and engraving; proof

Image: 12 3/16 × 9 5/16 in. (31 × 23.6 cm) Sheet: 15 3/16 × 11 1/4 in. (38.6 × 28.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

La Noce de Village

1788 · Color aquatint, etching, and engraving; proof

Image: 12 3/16 × 9 3/16 in. (31 × 23.4 cm) Sheet: 15 5/16 × 11 1/8 in. (38.9 × 28.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Le Tambourin (The Tambourin)

1788 · Color aquatint (ash manner), with etching and engraving, on ivory wove paper

Image: 30.7 × 23.5 cm (12 1/8 × 9 5/16 in.); Plate: 39 × 29.2 cm (15 3/8 × 11 1/2 in.); Sheet: 49.3 × 34.4 cm (19 7/16 × 13 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Brawl (La Rixe)

1787 · Color aquatint, etching, and engraving

Image: 12 1/8 × 9 3/16 in. (30.8 × 23.4 cm) Sheet: 15 3/8 × 11 1/8 in. (39.1 × 28.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vue d'un pont sur l'Aar, Canton de Berne (View of a Bridge on the Aar, Berne)

1785 · etching, aquatint, and wash manner, printed in color on laid paper

plate: 44.5 × 31.6 cm (17 1/2 × 12 7/16 in.) sheet: 48.1 × 33 cm (18 15/16 × 13 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Vue de la chute du torrent de Gelten

1785 · Color aquatint, etching, and engraving

Image: 12 7/8 in. × 9 in. (32.7 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 16 7/8 × 10 11/16 in. (42.9 × 27.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Four Scenes of Village Life

1785 · paper

width: 385 cm, height: 275 cm

Rijksmuseum

Vue du Schildwald-Bach prise en hiver

1785 · Color aquatint, etching, and engraving

Image: 12 13/16 in. × 9 in. (32.6 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 16 15/16 × 10 3/4 in. (43 × 27.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

View of the Port of St.Paul, Paris

1783 · Etching and engraving printed in color from at least four plates on ivory laid paper

sheet: 47 × 65.2 cm (18 9/16 × 25 11/16 in.); Image/Plate: 40.4 × 61.4 cm (15 15/16 × 24 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

View of Port St. Bernard

1783 · Color aquatint with etching and engraving in black ink on cream laid paper

Image/plate: 40.5 × 61.9 cm (16 × 24 3/8 in.); Sheet: 48.6 × 65.4 cm (19 3/16 × 25 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Vue de Schadau sur le Lac de Thun (View of Scadau, from the Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse)

1773 · Aquatint on cream laid paper

Image: 24 × 39 cm (9 1/2 × 15 3/8 in.); Sheet: 33 × 48 cm (13 × 18 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

La Rixe (The Brawl)

1773 · Color aquatint with etching and engraving in black ink on ivory wove paper

Image: 30.4 × 23.5 cm (12 × 9 5/16 in.); Plate: 39.2 × 29.2 cm (15 7/16 × 11 1/2 in.); Sheet: 49 × 34.4 cm (19 5/16 × 13 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Vue du Schild-Wald-Bach, Prise Enhiver (View of Schild-Wald Bach, from the Vues remarquables des montagnes des la Suisse )

1773 · Color aquatint with etching and engraving in black ink on ivory laid paper

Image: 32.5 × 22.6 cm (12 13/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 45 × 31.2 cm (17 3/4 × 12 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Vue de Schadau

1753 · etching and engraving printed in color

National Gallery of Art

Vue generale des Alpes et Glaciers

1753 · etching and engraving printed in color

National Gallery of Art