Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
German, 1712-1774
Battle of the Tritons
INV-7997
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
German, 1712-17741763
Battle of the Tritons
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich German, 1712-1774 →etchingprint
Date
1763
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Plate: 8.4 × 14.2 cm (3 5/16 × 5 5/8 in.); Sheet: 8.7 × 14.5 cm (3 7/16 × 5 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
In 1763, Dietrich was appointed professor of landscape painting at the newly founded Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Dresden and became Director of the Kunstschule at the porcelain manufactory in Meissen. Confident after these appointments, Dietrich took a more original approach to his work, refraining from copying the styles of other artists. In this freely etched plate, one can see the style of Dietrich’s direct hand.
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