Vier herenkostuums

About this artwork

Vier herenfiguren in verschillende Berlijnse kostuums. (in de tweede staat zijn de figuren voorzien van nummers en is onderaan de benaming van de kostuums weergegeven): bovenaan links = 1: Habit de gala ; rechts = 2: Négligé ; onderaan links =3: Froc; rechts=4: Surtout

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...