Don Quichot helpt de van haar ezel gevallen boerin
Medium
etching
Dimensions
76; 134
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Prent afkomstig uit een serie van twaalf vijf scènes die het verhaal van Don Quichot door Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra illustreren. Ook gebruikt in: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Leben und Thaten des weisen Junkers Don Quixote von la Mancha. Weimar, 1775-1779, 6 dln.
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...