Muzikale tweestrijd tussen Apollo en Marsyas
Medium
etching
Dimensions
75; 125
About this artwork
Prent gebruikt voor: Komischen Erzählungen in Versen (...). Berlijn: Christian Friedrich Himburg, 1785.
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...