The Card Game (Der kleine l'Hombre Tisch)
Medium
etching and sulfur tint with engraving in brown on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 7.9 x 10.9 cm (3 1/8 x 4 5/16 in.) sheet: 11.9 x 14.7 cm (4 11/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Katharine Shepard Fund
Accession Number
2006.7.1
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...