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Wilhelm and Leonore galloping through a graveyard, an illustration to Bürger's Leonore, in a trompe l'oeil frame surmounted by macabre symbols
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Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (Danzig 1726-1801 Berlin)
Wilhelm and Leonore galloping through a graveyard, an illustration to Bürger's Leonore, in a trompe l'oeil frame surmounted by macabre symbols
signed 'D. Chodowiecki Del.'
black lead, heightened with white on light brown paper
3¾ x 4 in. (95 x 100 mm.)
Wilhelm and Leonore galloping through a graveyard, an illustration to Bürger's Leonore, in a trompe l'oeil frame surmounted by macabre symbols
signed 'D. Chodowiecki Del.'
black lead, heightened with white on light brown paper
3¾ x 4 in. (95 x 100 mm.)
Engraved
Etched by the artist in 1789, in the same direction and with small differences, for the title page of an anthology of poems (J.H. Bauer, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, Kassel, 1982, p. 203, no. 1410).
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