Two Standing Ladies (Demoiselles Quantin)

Two Standing Ladies (Demoiselles Quantin) by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 14 x 9.2 cm (5 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.) sheet: 14.4 x 9.8 cm (5 11/16 x 3 7/8 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2001.92.1

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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