# The Lying-in Room \(1\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CHODOWIECKI, Daniel Nikolaus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chodowiecki-daniel-nikolaus-rb308c9adfed7ca>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Oil on pine, 30 x 24 cm

## Commentary

Two intimate scenes by Daniel Chodowiecki of a young mother in childbed show the light touch of one of Germany&#39;s most deft painters of the later-eighteenth-century domestic scene. In the first, the mother must receive visitors; in the second she may rejoice in their absence.

## 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>)
- [Self-Portrait with Family at the Table](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chodowiecki-daniel-nikolaus-rb308c9adfed7ca/self-portrait-with-family-at-the-table-r098288c42aa239>)
- [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 \(2\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chodowiecki-daniel-nikolaus-rb308c9adfed7ca/the-lying-in-room-2-r77d0c6b99fa7e8>)

## Attribution

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