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Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros

Name: Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros
Date of Birth: 1748
Place of Birth: Moudon/Switzerland
Date of Death: 1810
Place of Death: Lausanne/Switzerland

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Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros, also known as Louis Ducros, was a Swiss painter, water-colourist and engraver in the ‘pre-Romantic’ movement. Born in Moudon in 1748 and trained in Geneva, Ducros spent the greater part of his career in the cosmopolitan milieu of Rome, where he lived between 1777 and 1793, painting topographical scenes for the foreign tourist market. His partnership with the engraver Volpato was considered a professional masterstroke. The pair collaborated on the production of luxury collections of hand-coloured prints, in which Ducros produced watercolour designs that Volpato engraved, the monochrome plates of which Ducros then painted. Notable ventures included their Views of Rome and the Surrounding Countryside (1780) and Fourteen Views of the Museo Pio-Clementino, Rome (1786–1792).