1793
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Lovers is a 1793 ink by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This black-and-white print shows a couple embracing in a garden. The woman wears a long dress with a high waist and puffy sleeves, while the man stands close, his arm around her. Behind them, a striped bench sits empty under a large tree, and a small building peeks through the bushes. The title *Lovers* hints this scene is about romance, but the couple’s faces are blurred. The artist used fine lines to show detail, like the folds in the woman’s dress. Next, look up etching to see how artists like this made prints with acid and needles.
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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