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 "Theater of Taormina"; of the "Etna volcano"; of the "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.