Lot Essay
The study of these girls was used for the figures called Lottchen and Jettchen, standing in front of their father in the title-page, which bears the number 171, to which the number on the drawing refers.
Study of two Girls seen from behind
Details
Daniel Nicolaus Chodowiecki (1726-1801)
Study of two Girls seen from behind
signed (?) with initials 'CNCki', and numbered (?) '171'
red chalk
160 x 94 mm.
Study of two Girls seen from behind
signed (?) with initials 'CNCki', and numbered (?) '171'
red chalk
160 x 94 mm.
Provenance
An unidentified collector's number 'No.58' (recto).
Acquired by the father of the present owner before 1940.
Acquired by the father of the present owner before 1940.
Engraved
Etched by Chodowiecki in 1776, as part of the title-page to Schlummel's Kinderspielen (E. Wormsbächer and J.H. Bauer, Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, Erklärungen und Erläuterungen zu seinen Radierungen, Hannover, 1988, Ba. 316/E. 13, see fig. 1).