The Slave-owner Confronting Paul and Virginia, c. 1795

  • Blin le jeune, French
  • Charles Melchior Descourtis, French, 1753-1820
  • Jean Frederic Schall, French, 1752-1825

Mixed intaglio processes printed in color on wove paper

  • image: 12 5/8 x 16 1/8 in. 32.1 x 40.9 cm

Founders Society Purchase, John N. And Rhoda Lord Family Fund

66.61

In plate, lower left of image: Descourtis

In plate below image, lower right: Descourtis Sculp.; lower left: Schall Pinxit; lower center: PAUL ET VIRGINIE.; six long lines of text fill the bottom margin; bottom center edge of plate: AParis chez Descourtis, rue des Grands Degres No. 12. Imp. par Blin le jeune.

Roux, M. Inventaire du fonds français. Paris, 1951, no. 15.

Charles Melchior Descourtis; after Jean Frederic Schall, The Slave-owner Confronting Paul and Virginia, c. 1795, Mixed intaglio processes printed in color on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John N. And Rhoda Lord Family Fund, 66.61.