# Self-Portrait with Family at the Table

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chodowiecki-daniel-nikolaus-rb308c9adfed7ca/self-portrait-with-family-at-the-table-r098288c42aa239>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [CHODOWIECKI, Daniel Nikolaus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chodowiecki-daniel-nikolaus-rb308c9adfed7ca>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Etching, 180 x 230 mm

## Commentary

In 1771 Daniel Chodowiecki, a draughtsman, etcher, and book illustrator portrayed his professional success as the result of hard-working personal modesty and an orderly family life. While removing himself into the corner as the hard-working observer, he let all the light fall on his family. In a studio living-space with many pictures hanging on the walls, his wife, daughters and sons crowd around the common table. They are studying, drawing and communicating, they show themselves to be a morally intact community.

## Related artworks

- [Cardplayers at a Large Table](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chodowiecki-daniel-nikolaus-rb308c9adfed7ca/cardplayers-at-a-large-table-r7fd56007ea0c03>)
- [Illustration for Don Quixote](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chodowiecki-daniel-nikolaus-rb308c9adfed7ca/illustration-for-don-quixote-r1bd72050d17dac>)
- [Man Resting by the Wayside](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chodowiecki-daniel-nikolaus-rb308c9adfed7ca/man-resting-by-the-wayside-r6ebc233e95c20d>)
- [The Boy with the Sausage Spit](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chodowiecki-daniel-nikolaus-rb308c9adfed7ca/the-boy-with-the-sausage-spit-r9e55392d8e7d0d>)
- [The Lying-in Room \(1\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chodowiecki-daniel-nikolaus-rb308c9adfed7ca/the-lying-in-room-1-r94ea43339e12b5>)
- [The Lying-in Room \(2\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chodowiecki-daniel-nikolaus-rb308c9adfed7ca/the-lying-in-room-2-r77d0c6b99fa7e8>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)