Turk Man and Turk Woman / Elderly Turk

Franciszek Tepa

Basic information

ID: Г-V-666/20а,б
Author: Franciszek Tepa
Name: Turk Man and Turk Woman / Elderly Turk
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil watercolour
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 14.5 x 22.7

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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

а) Turk Man and Turk Woman
The work is a sketch of figures. Three young women are in the foreground, facing the viewer, dressed in Eastern attire. Next to the woman on the far right are two children. To the left of them and behind them in the background is a sketch of various figures.
b) Elderly Turk
On the reverse is a figurative depiction of an elderly Turk with a beard, seated front-facing, holding a long pipe in his left hand.

Inscriptions

а) In the bottom right is an erased artist's inscription. On the left, there is the date: "1853".
b) Inscription: "№ 289 / Fr. Tepa / Turek i Turzenki / Dar p. M. Toepfera (?) rysunek dwustronny".

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Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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