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Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Baptism of the Chamberlain of Queen Candace of Ethiopia

1740
Etching on paper
18.2 × 27.2 cm (7.2 × 10.7 in)

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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.

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