Woman's Head in a Bonnet

Franciszek Tepa

Basic information

ID: Г-V-965
Author: Franciszek Tepa
Name: Woman's Head in a Bonnet
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil chalk
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 29 x 22.5

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Provenance: Lviv Historical Museum

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

The oval face of an older woman turned ¾ to the left is framed by dark hair parted in the middle. Her head is tied with a velvet ribbon above the forehead. The woman has wide-set dark eyes, a long nose, narrow, elongated lips, and wrinkles around her nose and lips. She is wearing a bonnet adorned with a ruffle.

Inscriptions

In the middle at the bottom, there is an indistinct inscription in green pencil: "Ciotka Bar…". On the front side at the bottom left in pencil: "1824" and cipher "№ Г-V-965". On the label at the bottom, an inscription in Indian ink: "mal. majac 12 lat", in pencil: "1824".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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