La toilette
Sigmund Freudenberger
1726 to 1750
Medium
etching
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Widener Collection
Accession Number
1942.9.2343
About the Artist
Sigmund Freudenberger
Sigmund Freudenberger (1745–1801) was a Swiss painter and engraver renowned for his delicate Rococo scenes of rural life and everyday elegance. Born on June 16, 1745, in Bern to a lawyer father, he began his artistic training early as a portraitist. He apprenticed under the Swiss painter Emanuel Handmann before embarking on a formative trip to Paris around 1766 with his friend, the artist Adrian Z...