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Apotheose van Frederik II, koning van Pruisen

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Apotheose van Frederik II

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

1787

Medium

etching

Dimensions

h 286mm × w 527mm

Collection

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Materials

paper

Object Type

print

Subject Matter

apotheosis of a ruler; crowning with laurel (+ variant); (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena) (+ variant); Justitia (justice) as Roman personification; (story of) Mars (Ares); (story of) Jupiter (Zeus) (+ variant); (story of) Apollo (Phoebus) (+ variant); urn; insects: butterfly; de sterren; shaking hands, 'dextrarum junctio' (+ variant); armour; book - MM - book open; scales; doves, pigeons

Production Place

Berlin; Berlin

Acquisition Method

purchase

Acquired

1992

Notes

plaatrand: hoogte 286 mm x breedte 527 mm

Collection Type

prints

About Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

1726–1801 • Kingdom 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.

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