Turkish Women

Franciszek Tepa

Basic information

ID: Г-V-666/19
Author: Franciszek Tepa
Name: Turkish Women
Technique: drawing
Material: tracing paper on cardboard pencil watercolour
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 13.4 x 13.4

Additionally

Type: graphic art

Information about author

Author: Franciszek Tepa
Artist's lifetime: 1828–1889
Country: Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: The artist and graphic designer Franciszek Tepa was born in 1828 in Lviv. He received his initial artistic education from Jan Maszkowski. He continued his studies at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Ferdinand Waldmuller and later at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Wilhelm von Kaulbach. In the circle of Lviv romanticists during the 1840s and 1850s, influenced by French painting, the theme of the East became popular. After completing his education at the academies in Vienna and Munich, Franciszek Tepa travelled for two years through Greece, Egypt, and Palestine. His fascination with Eastern themes was expressed in paintings and watercolours. In the 1850s, the artist studied in Paris. In 1858, after returning from Paris, he settled in Lviv. He then created a series of works on everyday themes for Count Wlodzimierz Dzieduszycki. He passed away in 1889 in Lviv.

Object description

Three young women are depicted front-facing. They are sitting, dressed in Eastern attire. The woman on the side rests her head on her right hand, while the one in the middle has turned her head three-quarters to the right. On the edge to the left is a sketch of the left half of a female figure. To the right, two children are depicted. To the left of them and behind them in the background is a sketch of various figures.

Inscriptions

In the bottom right is the artist's inscription. On the left is the date: "1853".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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