Collection

Chartres

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-665/8
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: Chartres
Date of creation: 1890
Technique: drawing
Material: tracing paper on paper
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 19.8 x 16.4

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 of Chartres town. On the right side of the work in the foreground, one can see one-storey trade (?) pavilions. In the background there is a vaguely depicted stone bridge with two arches against the backdrop of a cathedral with Gothic towers.

Inscriptions

In the upper part of the work there is a creation date 1890 written illegibly in Polish.

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