The Card Game (Der kleine l'Hombre Tisch)
Medium
etching and sulfur tint with engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 79 x 10.8 cm (31 1/8 x 4 1/4 in.) sheet: 11.7 x 14.5 cm (4 5/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1986.22.1
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...