Leonard betreedt zijn huis en treft zijn vrouw en kinderen in tranen

About this artwork

Prent gebruikt voor: Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich. Léonard et Gertrude ou Les moeurs villageoises, telles qu'on les retrouve à la ville & à la cour. Berlijn: George Jacques Decker, 1783.

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...