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Cossacks

Artur Grottger

Basic information

ID: Г-V-666/3
Author: Artur Grottger
Name: Cossacks
Date of creation: 1848
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: narrative art
Plot: Cossacks cavalry

Information about author

Author: Artur Grottger
Artist's lifetime: 1837–1867
Biography: Artur Grottger was born in 1837 in the village of Otynevychi in the Lviv region (former Ottyniowice, Eastern Galicia). He studied at the Lviv School of Painting of Jan Maszkowski and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Vienna (1852–1858). He is a leading representative of Polish Romanticism. He is a painter, periodical illustrator, graphic artist, and watercolourist. He is the author of six patriotic art cycles regarding the January Uprising against the Russian occupation of Poland of 1863, portraits, and local history materials. Artur Grottger died after a severe illness in Amélie-les-Bains, France, in 1867. He was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv (field No.95).

Object description

This pencil drawing depicts two Russian Cossacks on horseback; there are fur hats on their heads. The Cossack in the center of the composition is armed with a saber, musket, and dragoon lance. Traces of sideburns are visible on the face. In the lower left part of the drawing there is a figure of a lying (dead) Cossack in the uniform. There is a headwear next to the lying figure. The landscape elements are missing.

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