Julie en St. Preux bij het diner
Medium
etching
Dimensions
104; 62
About this artwork
ets; proefdruk
Art Historical Context
**Julie en St. Pre bij het diner** (Julie and St. Preux at Dinner), a delicate etching by Daniel Nikolaus Chodcki from 1782, captures intimate moment from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's influential epistolary novel *Julie or the New Heloise (1761). Chodowiecki, a prolific-Danish engraver and director of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, was renowned for his narrative illustrations that brought Enlightenment literature to life. This-scale work (104 × 62 mm) depicts the tragic lovers sharing a meal, evoking the novel's themes of passion, virtue, and social constraints in 18th-century Europe. As ...
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...