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Woman Getting Dressed

Maurycy Gottlieb

Basic information

ID: Г-V-681
Author: Maurycy Gottlieb
Name: Woman Getting Dressed
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pen Indian ink
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 15.5 x 10.7

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: genre art history painting
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery

Information about author

Author: Maurycy Gottlieb
Artist's lifetime: 1856–1879
Country: Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Maurycy Gottlieb (1856, Drohobych – 1879, Krakow) was a Polish painter of Jewish origin. He studied at the art academies of Vienna and Krakow and was a pupil of Jan Matejko. He painted historical and religious compositions based on the Talmud and the Bible and was known as a portraitist.

Object description

The work is a vertical composition. In a dimly lit room, a young woman in white sits in a chair, holding a brown puppy on her lap. Behind her, a dignified black woman in attire resembling ancient Egyptian clothing brushes the young woman's hair.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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