Clarissa door haar familie beschuldigd
Medium
etching
Dimensions
162; 103
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie, a prolific German Rococo artist and engraver active in 18th-century Berlin, created this etching *Clarissa door haar familieuldigd* ("Clarissa Accused by Her Family") in 4. Measuring a intimate 162 × 103 mm, it captures a dramatic moment from Samuel Richardson's influential 1748 novel *Clar*, an epistolary tale of virtue, family coercion, and tragedy that captivated Enlightenment Europe. Chodowiecki, renowned for his moralistic illustrations of literature and everyday life, often depicted such emotionally charged scenes with delicate line work, making complex narrativ...
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...