Sir Robert en zijn zus kijken toe hoe Camille een waskom vasthoudt en de arts de zieken verzorgt
Medium
etching
Dimensions
116; 60
About this artwork
height 116 mm x width 60 mm
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie's 1787 etching, *Sir Robert en zijn zus kijken toe Camille een waskom vasoudt en de arts zieken verzorgt* (Sir Robert and his sister watch Camille holds a washbas while the doctor tends to the sick), captures tender moment of observation and caregiving. In this compact scene—measuring a mere 116 mm high by 60 mm widenoble siblings witness a compassionate act amid illness, evoking themes of empathy and domestic virtue common in 18th-century moral narratives. Chodowiecki, a prolific Prussian artist and director of the Berlin Academy of Arts, excelled in Rococo-influence...
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...