Vrijwillige verbranding van de weduwe
Medium
etching
Dimensions
99; 69
About this artwork
Latere staat gebruikt voor: Sprengel, Matthias Christian. Historisch-genealogischer Calender, oder, Jahrbuch der merkwürdigsten neuen Welt-Begebenheiten für 1786. Leipzig: Zur Messe bey Haude und Spener von Berlin, s.a.
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...