Phillis en Alexis

About this artwork

Tweede prent afkomstig uit een serie met twaalf scènes die 'Idyllen' van Salomon Gessner illustreren. De twaalf scènes werden samen op een plaat geëtst. De serie is gebruikt als illustratie in: 'Berliner genealogischen Calender auf das Jahr 1773'.

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...