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Artist: Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus (2)

Period: 18th century (4787) | 19th century (9817)

Type: chalk (1606) | graphite (1872) | ink (2963)

Style: German (183)

Keywords
busts (1091) | figures (4114) | frontispieces (illustrations) (10) | interior spaces (2036) | masters (1) | men (832) | ornamental medallions (156) | plinths (507) | portraits (1315) | students (150) | wigs (108)

Design for a frontispiece of a French grammar - master and pupil standing before a pedestal with a bust, in a hall, portrait medallions on the walls

18th century & 19th century

Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus    more

Pen and ink (red), graphite, chalk (black) on paper

Height: 15.5 cm; Width: 8.7 cm

Inscription
Pen and ink, beneath portrait medallions from left to right, CORNEIL/BOILEAU/LAFONTAINE/RACINE
Pen and ink, on mount, engraved by Engelmann 531
Pen and ink, verso, franz. Gramair von de Laveau

Acquisition
Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir); bequest; 1952
D.1952.RW.1464

Copyright: © Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London