Battle of the Tritons

Prints and Drawings

1763

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
German, 1712-1774

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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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
Title: Battle of the Tritons
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 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.)
Credit Line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
Reference Number: 1920.2133
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