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Milon en Chloë

Milon en Chloë by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

Medium

etching

Dimensions

56; 94

Rights

Public Domain

About this artwork

De jonge zanger Milon zingt op een morgen over zijn liefde voor Chloë. Plotseling blijkt zij achter hem te staan. Op deze prent lijken de rollen omgedraaid: hier bespiedt Milon vanachter een hek de nietsvermoedende Chloë. Rechtsonder genummerd: 3.

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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