Orlando in gevecht met de soldaten van Cimosco

About this artwork

Canto negen uit 'Ariosto Furioso'. Orlando heeft, gezeten op zijn paard, meerdere soldaten aan zijn lans gespiest afkomstig uit het leger van de Friezenkoning Cimosco.

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...