Collection

View of Chartres in France

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-665/7а
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: View of Chartres in France
Date of creation: 1890
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 15.9 x 19.8

Additionally

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

Information about author

Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Artist's lifetime: 1869–1907
Biography: Stanislaw Wyspianski was born in 1869 in Krakow. He studied at the Jagiellonian University and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was a member of the Young Poland movement, and art editor of the weekly Życie (Life). Stanislaw Wyspianski is known as a playwright and poet, modernist painter, and designer. The artist died in November 1907. He was buried in Krakow.

Object description

This is a cityscape with a river. In the foreground, one can see a triple-arched stone bridge, on which there are five clearly identifiable human figures. Three characters are having a rest, dangling their legs from the bridge. A house with a large round wall clock is depicted in the background. Behind the houseб one can see the outlines of two Gothic spires of a Roman Catholic Church.

Inscriptions

In the upper part of the work there is a creation place and date written in Polish.

View of Chartres in France

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