Baptism of the Chamberlain of Queen Candace of Ethiopia

Prints and Drawings

1740

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
German, 1712-1774

The son of a court painter at Weimar, Dietrich was considered to be a prodigy in landscape painting and was appointed court painter to the various Electors of Saxony.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
Title: Baptism of the Chamberlain of Queen Candace of Ethiopia
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1740
Medium: Etching on paper
Dimensions: 18.2 × 27.2 cm (7 3/16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
Reference Number: 1920.2132
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