Recto: Medallion Portrait of Susanne (Suzette) Chodowiecka, the Daughter of the Artist; Verso: Male Nude, Three Quarter View From Behind , 1770s

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Recto: Medallion Portrait of Susanne (Suzette) Chodowiecka, the Daughter of the Artist; Verso: Male Nude, Three Quarter View From Behind , 1770s

1770s

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Undated drawing in red chalk of Chodowiecki's daughter Susanne (Suzette) Chodowiecka. On verso: study of a male nude. Red chalk drawings on laid paper with armorial and proprietary watermarks. Dimensions of portrait: image 27.5 x 24 cm, sheet 41.5 x 30.5 cm. Signatures: signed in red chalk D. Chodowiecki f. in the lower right corner of image. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Claude Du Bois-Reymond, Zurich. References: not in Oettingen.

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Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801

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Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (16 October 1726 – 7 February 1801) was a German painter and printmaker with Huguenot and Polish ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin, and became the director of the Berlin Academy of Art. He was born in the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in Poland, and in a letter “in typical Berlin humor”[citation needed] wrote, “that he moved to Berlin, Germany, which shows for sure, that he is a 'genuine Pole'.” He kept close to the Huguenot scene...