Medea omhelst haar kinderen, waarna ze hen met een dolk doodt
Medium
etching
Dimensions
63; 57
About this artwork
Vervaardigd voor Gotter's vertelling 'Medea, ein Melodrama'. Prent uit: Gedichte von Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter. Gotha bei Carl: Wilhelm Ettinger, 1788, dl. 2.
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...