Gil Blas en zijn gevolg vinden de rector van de universiteit dronken op straat

About this artwork

Vervaardigd voor 'Gil Blas de Santillane' van Alain-René Lesage. Een latere staat gebruikt in: Almanac de Gotha (...). Gotha: C. W. Ettinger, 1784.

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...