Flora geëerd door de vier seizoenen
Medium
etching
Dimensions
77; 103
About this artwork
height 103 mm x width 77 mm
Art Historical Context
This delicate etching by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, titled *Flora geëerd door de vier seizoenen* (Flora Honored by the Four Seasons dates to 1799 and measures just 103 by 77 millimeters. Created at the close of the eighteenth century, the work exemplifies the period’s fascination with allegorical themes drawn from classical mythology, here centering on Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, celebrated by personifications of the seasons. Etching as a medium allowed artists like Chodowiecki to produce finely detailed images that could be printed and shared widely, often for books, almanacs, or ...
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...