Types of Jews. Sketch

Maurycy Gottlieb

Basic information

ID: Г-V-691
Author: Maurycy Gottlieb
Name: Types of Jews. Sketch
Date of creation: 1875
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil Indian ink pen
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 9.3 x 14.7

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: portraiture
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

The sketch depicts a group of four people. The central figure is rendered in more detail. This is an older man with a thick beard, wearing a black hat, slightly turned to the left. To the right of the group is a sketch of a male figure in a hat, viewed from behind.

Inscriptions

The author's signature and date are at the bottom right: "M. G. 1875".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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