Verstoring van de huwelijksgeloften
Medium
etching
Dimensions
113; 65
About this artwork
Vervaardigd voor een bewerking van Frances Burney's 'Cecilia', genaamd 'Cecilia oder die Geschichte einer reichen Waise'. Latere staat van deze prent gebruikt in: Königl. Grosbritannischer Historischer Genealogischer Calender für 1789, mit Kupfern von Chodowiecki. Lauenburg: J. G. Berenberg, 1788.
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...