Lady Macbeth
Medium
etching
Dimensions
110; 179
About this artwork
De slaapwandelende Lady Macbeth, gespeeld door Maria Rosalia Nouseul, grijpt met haar rechterhand een kandelaar vast.
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...