PAUL & VIRGINIE - MAURITIUS - LEGRAND Augustin (1765-1856) - "Death of Virginie". c.1800. Etching and burin with watercolor highlights, after the painting by Lambert. Vellum paper. In Paris, at Basset, Md d'Estampes, rue Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins n°670. Proof with the characters and the tree on the right redrawn in watercolor on paper and then pasted into the subject, thus modifying the composition. Probably a project of modification of the engraving wishing to add a more social character, the young slave weeping in front of a banana tree and Paul annihilated in his initial place. Copper margins. Representation of a scene from the novel "Paul et Virginie" by Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. 39,7 x 51,3 cm. Condition B (cut at the copperplate mark, a short tear in the tablet and some stains on the reverse).