Pedro de Moya biedt Arsenie zijn manuscript aan
Medium
etching
Dimensions
117; 69
About this artwork
Deze prent maakt deel uit van een serie van twaalf voorstellingen die de geschiedenis van 'Gil Blas' illustreren. Een latere staat is ook gebruikt in Alain-René Lesage. Gil Blas von Santillana. Neu übersetzt [door Wilhelm Christhelf Sigmund Mylius]. 6 dln. Berlijn: Christian Friedrich Himburg, 1779, 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...