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