Three Children (recto); Sketches of Head, Eyes, Lips, and Flowers (verso)
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
18th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink (recto), and red chalk (verso), both on ivory laid paper, hinged onto tan card
Dimensions
17.8 × 22.6 cm (7 1/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113422
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...