Lanassa en Palmira in gesprek
Medium
etching
Dimensions
97; 58
About this artwork
Linksboven genummerd: 2. Met onderschrift in het Duits.
Art Historical Context
**Lanassa en Palmira in** is a delicate etching by Daniel Nikolaus Chowiecki, a leading Polish-German artist of the 18th century, created in 1782. just 97mm by 58mm, this intimate print captures a moment of conversation between two women, Lanassa and Palmira— characters from literature or moral tale. Numbered "2" in the top and accompanied by a German caption, forms part of a series, Chodowiecki's output as an illustrator for books and periodicals during the Enlightenment era. Chodowiecki, director of the Berlin Academy of Arts, excelled in the Rococo style with its graceful lines and narrati...
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...