# Lover Surprised [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DESCOURTIS, Charles-Melchior]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Coloured aquatint, 462 x 370 mm ## Commentary Lover Surprised 1790s Coloured aquatint, 462 x 370 mm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg This work was made after a painting by Jean Frederic Schall. Descourtis was a pupil of Jean-François 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-Frédéric Schall, notably the series of illustrations to Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s novel Paul et Virginie \(1788\). ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()