Adelgunde toont berouw bij het altaar
Medium
etching
Dimensions
80; 132
About this artwork
ets; proefdruk
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki’s 1795 etching *Adelgunde toont berouw bij het altaar* captures a moment of quiet repentance. The Polish-German artist, celebrated for his delicate book illustrations and scenes of everyday moral life during the Enlightenment, specialized in small-scale prints that reached wide audiences. Here, the diminutive format—only 132 by 80 millimeters—invites intimate viewing, drawing the eye to the solitary female figure at the altar. Executed as an etching, the work exploits the medium’s capacity for fine, expressive lines and subtle tonal gradations. The inscription “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...