Christian Friedrich Boetius

Christian Friedrich Boetius belongs to the European engraving tradition of the mid-eighteenth century, working in burin on copper with a marked interest in nocturnal and genre-like subjects. His prints render candlelit interiors and shadowed settings with the linear precision typical of reproductive engraving of the period. The archive holds a single sheet by him, an engraving dated 1750 in the Met's records and described as a night scene in a cave, where an old woman carries burning coals in a pot while a boy blows the fire to life at the left.

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Night scene in a cave with an old woman holding burning coals in a pot, a boy blowing into the fire at left

ca. 1750–57 · Engraving