Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Das Kupferstichkabinet: Nachbildungen von Werken der Graphischen Kunst vom Ende des XV. Bis zum Anfang des XIX. Jahrhunderts
Maler und Kupferstecher, zu Metz 1733 geboren, 1781 zu Lagny gestorben, gilt als Erfinder der Aquatinta. Oder Tu'sch manier. In jungen Jahren ging er nach St. Petersburg und erregte durch seine Zeichnungen und Blätter in Tuschmanier grosses Aufsehen.
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