Don Quichot en de zes vrouwen
Medium
etching
Dimensions
95; 52
About this artwork
Zevende prent van een serie van twaalf scènes die het verhaal van Don Quichot door Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra illustreren. De scènes werden op een plaat geëtst. Deze serie werd ook gebruikt in: 'Almanac Genealogique pour l'an 1771'.
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...