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CHRISTIAN-BERNHARD RODE
Conradin Holding the Head of His Decapitated Friend
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Etching, 1781. 495x365 mm; 19
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2
x14 inches, small margins. A very good impression of
this large, scarce etching.
Rode was director of the Berlin Academy of the Arts from 1783 until his death in 1797.
He was a talented painter of history scenes as well as one of the top printmakers in Prussia
during the reign of Frederick the Great. LeBlanc 165.
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