1784
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Young Man with Cane is a 1784 ink by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This black-and-white print shows a man in old-fashioned clothes walking outdoors. He’s wearing a tall hat, a long coat, and boots, and he leans on a cane. The background has wavy lines like water or a blurred landscape, with some bushes at his feet. The lines are sharp but soft, made by an etching tool. This was a common way to print images before photography. Check out the technique: etching to see how artists made 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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