Ruffin de schoorsteenveger maakt voorbijgangers zwart
Medium
etching
Dimensions
111; 66
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228
Art Historical Context
**Ruffin de Schoorsteenveger Maakt Voorbijgangers Zwart** *Daniel Nikolaus Chodcki, 1779, etching, 111 × 66 mm* Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie, a prolific Prussian engraver and illustrator active in 18th-century Berlin, a lively moment of everyday mischief in this intimate etching. Titled *Ruffin de Schoorsteenveger Ma Voorbijgangerswart* ("Ruffin the Chimney Sweep Makes Passers Black"), the scene humorously depicts a sooty chimney sweep playfully dirtying unsuspecting pedestrians, a nod to the gritty realities of urban life during the Enlightenment era. Chodwiecki's small-scale works like this o...
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...