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Maurycy Gottlieb

Basic information

ID: Г-V-690
Author: Maurycy Gottlieb
Name: Sketch
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 9.3 x 14.2

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: genre art
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

A sketch of a young man stepping through a window with his left leg while holding onto the frame with his right hand. To the right is the silhouette of a woman's head. On the reverse side is a sketch of a house.

Inscriptions

At the bottom centre, there is the artist's signature: "M. G.".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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