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Sah er ungehalten aus? (What, look’d he frowningly?)

Sah er ungehalten aus? (What, look’d he frowningly?) by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 6.99 × 4.92 cm (2 3/4 × 1 15/16 in.) sheet: 8.26 × 5.08 cm (3 1/4 × 2 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Christopher and Beverly With in memory of Karl and Gerda With

Accession Number

2016.142.10

About the Artist

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki · 17261801

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...

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