Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
German, 1712-1774
The Scissors-Grinder
INV-7997
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
German, 1712-17741741
The Scissors-Grinder
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich German, 1712-1774 →etchingprint
Date
1741
Medium
Etching printed in black on laid paper
Dimensions
14.1 × 12.1 cm (5 9/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
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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