Christina Chalon (25 May 1748 – 18 December 1808) was a Dutch artist. Chalon was born in Amsterdam, and studied painting under

Sara Troost Sara Troost, or Sara Ploos van Amstel (1732–1803) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography Troost was born and died in Amsterdam. According to the RKD, she was the daughter of the painter Cornelis Troost and t ...

and Ploos van Amstel. She, however, devoted herself more particularly to etching, in which she acquired great proficiency. She has left some thirty plates, for the most part in the style of

Adriaen van Ostade Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Jansz Hendricx 10 December 1610 – buried 2 May 1685) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works, showing everyday life of ordinary men and women. Life According to Arnold Houbraken, he and his brot ...

. She died at

Hazerswoude Hazerswoude is a former municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland. It contained the towns of Hazerswoude-Dorp and Hazerswoude-Rijndijk Hazerswoude-Rijndijk is a Dutch village located in the province of South Holland. It is a part of the ...

in 1808 and was buried in Leiden. Her etchings are marked with ''Chr^a Cha.'', or ''Chr^a Chal.'', or else ''CC.'' Amongst the best may be noticed: * ''An Interior, with three Boors''. * ''A Mother taking three children to School''. * ''An Old Woman saluting a peasant Boy''.

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* * Attribution: * 1748 births 1808 deaths Engravers from Amsterdam Women engravers 18th-century engravers 18th-century Dutch women artists {{Netherlands-artist-stub