Louis Ducros, also known as Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros or Du Cros, as appears on his birth certificate, was a Swiss painter, water-colourist and engraver, and was a main figure in the 'pre-Romantic
"Son of our captain Erié, with a violin" (album 'Voyage en Italie, en Sicile et à Malte - 1778') - Coll. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Ruins of the Basilica of Maxentius in the Forum Romanum, A-L-R Ducros, (c. 1779) - YCBA
Visit of Pius VI to the Pontine Marshes, A-L-R Ducros (1786). Palazzo Braschi, Rome.
"The Valley of the Nera" aka "Orage dans la vallée de la Nera" by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros (Stourhead Coll.)
Giovanni Volpato
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Giovanni Volpato was an Italian engraver. He was also an excavator, dealer in antiquities and manufacturer of biscuit porcelain figurines.
Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros
…after one of his marine paintings to Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, a young engraver who had just entered the renowned studio of the highly skilled engraver Giovanni Volpato. A series of eight prints by Morghen after Ducros was later published between 1784 and 1786. With remarkable judgement, Ducros joined forces with…
Giovanni Volpato (Angelica Kauffman, 1794/5)
"View of the Gallery painted by Annibale Carracci and his Scholars existing in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome" (1777); Sign.: ''Fran.co Panini and Lodo.co Teseo dis. Gio. Volpato sc. in Rome 1777'' (British Library)
I Burattini, c. 1770
Detail of a pilaster of the Raphael's Loggia with marine fauna and mythological subjects. Engraving, 1774