Vergadering voorafgaand aan Bartholomeusnacht
Medium
etching
Dimensions
101; 57
About this artwork
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Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie's etching *Vergadering voorafga aan Bartholomeusn* (Meeting Prior to the St. Bartholomew Night), created in 1790, a tense historical moment from the infamous 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre France. This small-scale work (101 × 57 mm) depicts the clandestine gathering of Catholic leaders—likely including Catherine de' Medici and King Charles IX—plotting the slaughter of Huguenot Protestants, an event that shocked Europe and escalated the French Wars of Religion. Chodowiecki, a leading German engraver of the Enlightenment era and director of the Berlin Academy of Art...
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...