Pietro Ducros

Pietro or Pierre Ducros was a Swiss-Italian painter and engraver active in Rome
He trained in Switzerland, and mainly produced landscapes, moving to Rome as an adult, where he formed a friendship with Giovanni Volpato. Together, they assembled a series of vedute of the city and surrounding countryside. He then joined with Paolo Montagnari or Paolo Montagnari-Mirabili to publish 24 vedute of Sicily and Malta. Both these publications met with success.
The series published probably around 1789 by Montagnari included vedute of "Palermo, near Monreale"; of the "Ancient [theatre of Taormina|Theater of Taormina]"; of the "Etna volcano"; of the "Greek [Theatre of Syracuse|Amphitheater of Siracusa]", of the "Interior of the city of Messina after the earthquake of 1783", and of the "Port of the galleys of the Arsenal of Malta".
He retired and died in Lausanne.