Sigmund Freudenberger

Portrait by Anton Hickel (1786)

Sigmund Freudenberger (16 June 1745 – 15 November 1801) was a Swiss painter and engraver.[1]

Biography

Freudenberger was the son of a lawyer, and studied as a portraitist. He lived from 1765 to 1773 in Paris, where he worked with François Boucher and Jean-Michel Moreau.[2] He then founded in a private art school in Bern and was known as "Little Master" for his genre-like depictions of rural life.

References

  1. ^ Stein, Perrin; Holmes, Mary Tavener; N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York (1999). Eighteenth-century French Drawings in New York Collections. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-87099-892-8.
  2. ^ Hind, Arthur Mayger (1963-06-01). A History of Engraving & Etching From the 15th Century to the Year 1914. Courier Corporation. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-486-20954-8.