The Card Game (Der kleine l'Hombre Tisch)

1758

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

Associated Names
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

Artist, German, 1726 - 1801

This is a drawing of three figures seated around a table with a candle. The central figure faces the viewer. There is a candle illuminating the scene. The drawing is in sepia tone and features detailed textures on the figures and their surroundings.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and sulfur tint with engraving in brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 7.9 x 10.9 cm (3 1/8 x 4 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 11.9 x 14.7 cm (4 11/16 x 5 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2006.7.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Engelmann 1857, no. 13, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 55.

Bibliography

1857

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

2005

  • Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler. Gang durch die Jahrhunderte: Druckgraphik von 1465 - 1891. Frankfurt am Main, 2005: no. 71.

Inscriptions

upper right in image: D. Chodowiecki del & f. 1758

Wikidata ID

Q76337998

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