Don Quichot helpt de van haar ezel gevallen boerin
Medium
etching
Dimensions
76; 134
About this artwork
Prent afkomstig uit een serie van twaalf vijf scènes die het verhaal van Don Quichot door Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra illustreren. Ook gebruikt in: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Leben und Thaten des weisen Junkers Don Quixote von la Mancha. Weimar, 1775-1779, 6 dln.
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...