Gate with Towers near the Bridge in Chartres

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-665/10
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: Gate with Towers near the Bridge in Chartres
Date of creation: 1890
Technique: drawing
Material: tracing paper on paper Indian ink pen
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 16.5 x 20.2

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

The picture represents the castle complex with two circular shaped towers (Romanesque architecture) and an arcade bridge over the river.

Inscriptions

At the bottom there is an inscription "Chartres" written illegibly in Polish and followed by an illegible inscription and a creation date 1890.

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