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Illustrations to La Fontaine

1799/1800

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

Associated Names

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

Artist, German, 1726 - 1801

This is a drawing of two distinct scenes. One shows an interior domestic scene with a person lying in a four-poster bed and another figure tending to them. The other scene depicts an outdoor gathering under a canopy of trees with figures dressed in period attire.

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching
Credit Line

Gift of Dr. Dieter Erich Meyer
Accession Number

1979.59.8
Catalogue Raisonné

Engelmann 1857, no. 907, State -908

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Bibliography

1857

Engelmann, Wilhelm. Daniel Chodowiecki's sammtliche Kupferstiche. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1857.

Wikidata ID

Q65567542

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