Collection

Vignette

Artur Grottger

Basic information

ID: Г-V-63
Author: Artur Grottger
Name: Vignette
Date of creation: c.1850 (?)
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 20.3 x 16.8

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: decorative
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 vignette with a floral ornament (lilies of the valley ?), which decorates the frame; in the center there is a graphic profile image of a naked woman; she is depicted from the back. The hair is gathered in a topknot on the head; her hands are folded in front of her. She is facing the indistinct silhouettes of two angels (cupids?).

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