Falstaff tussen de soldaten
Medium
etching
Dimensions
56; 91
About this artwork
Rechtsboven genummerd: 10. Met onderschrift en paginaverwijzing in het Duits.
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie's etching *Falstaff tussen de soldaten* (Falstaff Among the Soldiers), created in 1785, a lively scene from William Shakespeare's *Henry IV*. The diminutive print (91mm × 56mm) depicts the boisterous, rotund knight Falstaff surrounded by his ragtag recruits, highlighting the character's comic cowardice and larger-than-life persona. Numbered "10" in the upper right, it includes a German caption and page reference, suggesting it belongs to an illustrated book or series—typical of Chodowiecki's prolific output as a leading 18th-century German etcher and illustrator. Chod...
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...