Man en vrouw in modieuze kleding
Medium
etching
Dimensions
63; 100
About this artwork
Een stel gekleed in modieuze, onhandig uitziende kleding, staat symbool voor 'geaffecteerd' gedrag.
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, a prolific Prussian artist and engraver of the Enlightenment, captures the quirks of 18-century high society in his 1779 etching *Man en vrouw in modieuze kleding* (Man and Woman in Fashionable Clothing). Measuring just 100mm by 63mm, this print exemplifies Chodowiecki's of small-scale satire, a hallmark of his oeuvre. Working in etching—a technique where acid etches intricate lines into a metal plate produced detailed, reproducible images that circulated widely among Europe's educated classes, commenting on manners and mores. The artwork depicts a stylish couple ...
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...