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Portrait of a Young Woman

Artur Grottger

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Basic information
ID
Г-I-350
Author
Artur Grottger
Name
Portrait of a Young Woman
Date of creation
c.1852 (?)
Technique
watercolor
Material
paper watercolor
Dimensions (height x width, cm)
22.8 x 17.5
Additionally
Type
graphic art
Genre
portraiture
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 bust-length image of a young black-haired girl; her face is turned to the viewer’s left. She is wearing a closed gray dress with a white collar. The girl’s hair is combed back and framed with a braid. Her facial features are characterized by large wide-open eyes, arched wide eyebrows, and thin stiff lips. She is looking upwards. The background of the work is blurred.

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