Jongen bij het spit
Medium
etching
Dimensions
146; 115
About this artwork
De voorstelling toont de zoon van Thomas, een tuinman voor de Potsdammerthor, terwijl hij aan een spit met een lamsbout draait.
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...