Jonge vrouw leest een boek bij de kapper
Medium
etching
Dimensions
111; 67
About this artwork
height 111 mm x width 67 mm
Art Historical Context
**Jonge vrouw leest een bij de kapper**Young Woman Reads a Book at the Hairdress), etched by Daniel Nikolaus Chowiecki in 1779, captures a quiet moment of 18th-century daily life. This intimate etching, measuring just 111 mm high by 67 mm wide, exemplifiesodowiecki's mastery as a prolific German artist of Polish origin, renowned for his detailed vignettes of bourgeois society. Working in Berlin during the Enlightenment, he produced thousands of prints that offered moralistic glimpses into urban routines, blending Rococo elegance with emerging realism. The scene depicts a young woman absorbed ...
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...