Julie ontmoet St. Preux na zijn wereldreis
Medium
etching
Dimensions
87; 57
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228
Art Historical Context
**Julie Meets St. Preux His World Journey** *Daniel Nikolaus Chowiecki, 1782, Etching, 87 × 57 mm* This delicate etching by Daniel Nikolaus Chodcki captures a poignant moment from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's wildly popular epistolary novel *Julie, or the New Hel* (1761). Titled *Julie ontmoet St. Preux na zijn wereld* ("Julie Meets St. Preux After World Journey"), it depicts emotional reunion between the virtuous heroine Julie and her passionate lover St. Preux who returns transformed from his global travels. Created in 1782, during the height of Enlightenment sentimentality, the print reflects...
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...