French engraving — Desjardins, Louis Joseph Isnard

Louis Joseph Isnard Desjardins (1814 -1894) was a French engraver. He was a student of the painter Gros and engraver Augusto Fauchery (1798-1843). He specialized in author's engraving and engraving of reproductions. In 1845, he developed an original chromotypic engraving process, for which he received two medals at the World's Fair in Paris in 1855. The "Desjardins process" is becoming popular and has been compared to "chrome", although the engraving technique is different here. The industrialized "Desjardins process" was also called "Desjardins engraving". Louis Joseph Desjardins is little known, although the "Desjardins process" was popular in printing in the second half of the 19th century, when quality color images were rare.