Alvarez Douror en Belvidera Dellon

About this artwork

Een latere staat van deze prent is gebruikt in: Leben, Bemerkungen und Meinungen Johann Bunkels, nebst den Leben verscheidener merkwürdiger Frauenzimmer. 4 dln. Berlijn: Friedrich Nicolai, 1778. De Engelse uitgave verscheen tussen 1756-1766 onder de titel 'The life of John Buncle' en wordt meestal toegeschreven aan Thomas Armory. Chodowiecki etste in totaal 16 scènes voor dit werk.

About the Artist

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki · 1726–1801

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (1726–1801) was a German painter and printmaker of Polish-Huguenot descent who became the most celebrated graphic artist in 18th-century Germany. Born in Danzig (now Gdańsk), he created approximately 2,000 etchings that serve as an invaluable visual record of German bourgeois life during the Enlightenment. Largely self-taught, Chodowiecki moved to Berlin in 1743 and ach...