Portrait of Cardinal Alexander Kakowski
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Basic information
- ID
- Ж-4851
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- Portrait of Cardinal Alexander Kakowski
- Date of creation
- after 1919
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- canvas oil
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 58.5 x 50
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- portraiture
- Plot
- Portrait
- Provenance
- Vasyl Stefanyk Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv
Information about author
Object description
Against a neutral dark background is a bust-length frontal portrait of an older man wearing glasses and traditional cardinal's red attire. A man is dressed in a mozzetta – a short cloak that covers the shoulders, a biretta – a clerical hat, and a clerical collar. The image is enclosed within an oval.
Portrayed person
- The name of the person portrayed
- Alexander Kakowski was a Roman Catholic priest (since 1886), Polish Cardinal (since 1919), and Primate of the Kingdom of Poland (since 1925).
- Lifetime of the person portrayed
- 1862–1938
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
