Minerva en Victoria houden Socrates een spiegel voor
Medium
etching
Dimensions
82; 101
About this artwork
Prent uit: Lavater, Johann Caspar. Vermischte unphysiognomische Regeln zur Selbst- und Menschenkenntniss (...). Zürich: s.n., 1787.
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...