6510 - Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus

Chodowiecki, Daniel Nikolaus The woman is feeding the poultry while the preacher C. H. Schultze is pruning the trees in Döbritz. Pen and gray wash on handmade paper. 8 x 5.4 cm. Signed at the bottom “D. Chodowiecki del.” Circa 1796. Preliminary drawing for the “Calendar of the Muses and Graces for the Year 1797” with poems by Friedrich Wilhelm August Schmidt (known as Schmidt von Werneuchen), illustrating a poem titled “To Pastor C. H. Schultze, / in Döbritz.” The etching by Geyser based on this drawing (Engelmann, Supplement, p. 86, Geyser No. 71) is included. Also included is a wash pen-and-ink drawing by Chodowiecki titled “Father with His Children at the Duck Pond,” likely a draft illustration (pen in gray, gray wash, verso blackened for transfer, on vellum; 6.9 x 7.5 cm). - Please request condition reports for the lots, as the condition is usually not indicated in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.