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An Aristocratic Family Visiting Paupers
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An Aristocratic Family Visiting Paupers

mid-18th–18th century

Medium

Pen and gray ink

Dimensions

sheet: 6 7/16 x 8 13/16 in. (16.3 x 22.4 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Van Day Truex Fund, 2008

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

1726–1801Kingdom of PrussiaPolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

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, Poland), he created approximately 2,000 etchings that serve as an invaluable visual record of German bourgeois life during the Enlightenment era.