Illustrations to Fables & Tales by Gellert, Gleim, Hagedorn, Lichtwer and Pfeffel
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 15.3 × 27.5 cm (6 × 10 13/16 in.) sheet: 21.7 × 30.4 cm (8 9/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1947.12.28
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...