Art Institute of Chicago
The Scissors-Grinder
Christian Wilhelm Ernst DietrichLinkedCulture matchlcp-35b7039b5aa9
- Date
- 1741
- Medium
- Etching printed in black on laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 79972
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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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- Credit line
- The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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