Marfisa en Zerbin
Medium
etching
Dimensions
0; 0
About this artwork
Canto twintig uit 'Ariosto Furioso'. De ridders Marfisa en Zerbin hebben zojuist een gevecht met elkaar geleverd. Hierbij was afgesproken dat de verliezer de oude dienstmaagd (rechts te paard) zou begeleiden. Links de verslagen Zerbin die beteuterd de consequenties van zijn verlies accepteert.
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...