Lodewijk IX krijgt het hart van de Egyptische Sultan aangeboden

About this artwork

Vervaardigd voor Johann Christoph Maiers 'Histoire des Croisades'. Latere staat gebruikt voor: Almanac de Gotha contenant diverses connoissances curieuses et utiles pour l'année MDCCLXXXII. Gotha: C. W. Ettinger, 1782.

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...