1784
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Girl with an Ostrich Feather Headdress is a 1784 ink by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This black-and-white drawing shows a woman standing sideways, holding a fan to her face. She wears a big, puffy dress and a tall headdress with feathers. The background looks like a garden with bushes and a path, but it’s drawn in a simple, sketchy way. The artist used a technique that lets them scratch lines into a metal plate to make the print. This made the lines sharp and clear, even though the whole image is just shades of gray. Check out etching to see how artists create prints like this.
Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (16 October 1726 – 7 February 1801) was a German painter and printmaker of Huguenot and Polish ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher.
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