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Sketch of a Vignette

Artur Grottger

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Basic information
ID
Г-V-411
Author
Artur Grottger
Name
Sketch of a Vignette
Date of creation
c.1848 (?)
Technique
drawing
Material
paper pencil
Dimensions (height x width, cm)
16.5 x 20.5
Additionally
Type
graphic art
Genre
narrative art
Provenance
Collection of Leon Pininski
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 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Vienna (1852–1858). He is a leading representative of Polish Romanticism. He is known as a painter, periodical illustrator, graphic artist, and watercolorist. 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 serious illness in Amélie-les-Bains, France, in 1867. He was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv (field No.95).
Object description
This is a drawing with the image of an L-shaped architectural element (an arch?). Closer to the bottom right there is an image of a man's head depicted in profile; he has a beard and long hair, which is covered with a headdress decorated with a long feather.

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