Three Sketches

Maurycy Gottlieb

Basic information

ID: Г-V-689
Author: Maurycy Gottlieb
Name: Three Sketches
Date of creation: 1875
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 9.4 x 14.5

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: genre art
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery

Information about author

Author: Maurycy Gottlieb
Artist's lifetime: 1856–1879
Country: Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Maurycy Gottlieb (1856, Drohobych – 1879, Krakow) was a Polish painter of Jewish origin. He studied at the art academies of Vienna and Krakow and was a pupil of Jan Matejko. He painted historical and religious compositions based on the Talmud and the Bible and was known as a portraitist.

Object description

On the left side of the sheet is a sketch of a man in military uniform with a sabre, seated and turned in profile to the left. The man is reading a newspaper. Almost the entire centre of the sheet is occupied by a profile image of an old bearded Jew in a hat. To the right is a faintly outlined human figure.

Inscriptions

In the bottom centre is the artist's signature and date: "M. Gottlieb".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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