 His portrait of the Genevan geologist and meteorologist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1796, Geneva) was much copied in prints.He also drew and painted Italianate landscapes, some with the landscape round Geneva reimagined as a classical scene, as in "La ville de Genève idéalisée à l’antique avec le tombeau de Rousseau" ("The city of Geneva idealized in antique style, with the tomb of Rousseau"), c. 1794.He had married his cousin Madeleine-Hélène Bois de Chêne on his return to Geneva in 1792, and had three daughters.