Art Institute of Chicago
The Scissors-Grinder
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
- Date
- 1741
- Medium
- Etching printed in black on laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This particular print is very much in the style of the popular Dutch artist Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685), who consistently used the technique of chiaroscuro to portray peasant life in his paintings, drawings, and etchings. In this etching, Dietrich employs similar contrasts of light and dark to light up the diminutive figures of the peasants at work.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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