The Satyr in Peasant's House

Description

In this etching, produced twenty-five years after the preceding one, Dietrich returns to the subject Satyr in a Peasant's House, but eliminates much of the detail found in the earlier print.

The Satyr in Peasant's House

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

1764

Accession Number

95163

Medium

Etching on paper

Dimensions

Plate: 14.2 × 16.9 cm (5 5/8 × 6 11/16 in.); Sheet: 14.5 × 17.3 cm (5 3/4 × 6 13/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection