Clarissa aan tafel bij Lovelace en zijn vrienden
Medium
etching
Dimensions
104; 162
About this artwork
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Art Historical Context
**Clarissa aan tafel bij Lovel en zijn vrienden** (1784) is a delicate etching by Daniel Nikolausodowiecki, a German artist renowned for his narrative illustrations of 18th-century literature. Measuring just 162 × 104 mm, this print captures a pivotal dinner scene from Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel *Clarissa, or the History of a Lady* (1748). Here, the virtuous heroine Clarissa sits uneasily at table with the rakish Lovelace and his scheming friends, foreshadowing her tragic seduction and moral downfall—a theme that gripped Enlightenment readers across Europe. Chodowiecki, often called...
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...