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Three Sketches

Maurycy Gottlieb

Basic information

ID: Г-V-693
Author: Maurycy Gottlieb
Name: Three Sketches
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil pen
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 9.4 x 14.3

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: portraiture
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

On the left side of the sheet are sketches of two female heads: a young girl (above) and an older woman (below). In the centre of the sheet is a full-length depiction of a woman in a hat, jacket, and long skirt, sitting with her right leg crossed over her left. The woman props up her head with her right hand.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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