Kaartende dames
Medium
etching
Dimensions
103; 59
About this artwork
Prent gebruikt voor: Almanac Généalogique pour l'année 1781 (...). S.l.s.n., [1780]. Een serie van twaalf prenten betreffende bezigheden voor dames.
Art Historical Context
**Kaartende Dames (Card-Playing Ladies)** *Daniel Nikolaus Chowiecki, 1780, etching, 103 × 59 mm* Step into the refined world of 18th leisure with Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie's delicate etching *Kaartende Dames This charming scene captures elegant ladies engrossed in a card game, poised gestures and fashionable attire ev the genteel pastimes of Europe's upper classes during the late Enlightenment. Chodowie, a prolific Prussian artist renowned for his Rococo-infused vignettes of everyday life, masterfully rendered these intimate moments in miniature scale, making the print both portable and pro...
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...