Print "Farewell to Calas by his family", dimensions of the print (imprint)-18x 23 cm, framed.
The story is about the farewell of Jean Calas unjustly sentenced to death, the authorship of the work is attributed to Danzig artist Daniel Chodowiecki, however the prints were made by Ernst Christoph Thelott.
Daniel Chodowiecki, actually Daniel Nikolaus ( Mikolaj) Chodowiecki (born October 16, 1726 in Danzig, died February 7, 1801 in Berlin) - a German painter, draughtsman and engraver of Polish origin. His oeuvre consists of about 4,000 drawings made in pencil, sanguine and ink, 2075 engravings engraved on 978 plates and about 30 paintings. He was the first to depict petit bourgeois and family life in northern Germany. The spreading spirit of the Enlightenment is reflected in his works. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) called him a "painter of souls" because of his artistic, cultural and historical and literary prints, which are a document of the era .
