Portret van Catharina de Grote
Medium
etching
Dimensions
130; 176
About this artwork
Prent ook gebruikt in: Krünitz, Johann Georg. Oekonomische Encyklopädie. Berlijn: Joachim Pauli, 1779, dl. 16.
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...