Baptism of the Chamberlain of Queen Candace of Ethiopia

Description

The son of a court painter at Weimar, Dietrich was considered to be a prodigy in landscape painting and was appointed court painter to the various Electors of Saxony.

Baptism of the Chamberlain of Queen Candace of Ethiopia

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

1740

Accession Number

108963

Medium

Etching on paper

Dimensions

18.2 × 27.2 cm (7 3/16 × 10 3/4 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections