Camille wordt joviaal door de dorpsbewoners ontvangen aangezien dezen haar waarderen om de goedheid van haar hart en niet haar rijkdom

About this artwork

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Art Historical Context

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie, a prolific German engraver and illustrator of Polish descent, created this etching in 178 during the late Enlightenment era. Titled *Camille wordt jov door de dorpsbew ontvangen aangezien dezen haareren om de goedheid van haar hart en niet haardom*—translating to "Camille is jovially by the villagers, who appreciate her for the goodness of her heart and not her"—the small-scale work (116mm × 63mm) captures heartwarming moment of moral virtue triumphing over materialism. As a proof print (*proefdruk*), it represents an early impression from the etching plate, offering ...

About the Artist

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki · 1726–1801

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (1726–1801) was a German painter and printmaker of Polish-Huguenot descent who became the most celebrated graphic artist in 18th-century Germany. Born in Danzig (now Gdańsk), he created approximately 2,000 etchings that serve as an invaluable visual record of German bourgeois life during the Enlightenment. Largely self-taught, Chodowiecki moved to Berlin in 1743 and ach...