Death of King Charles XII

Artur Grottger

Basic information

ID: Г-V-189
Author: Artur Grottger
Name: Death of King Charles XII
Date of creation: c.1858
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 27 x 35

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: genre art
Plot: Death of King Charles XII

Information about author

Author: Artur Grottger
Artist's lifetime: 1837–1867
Country: Austrian Empire
Biography: Artur Grottger was born in 1837 in the village of Otynevychi in the Lviv region (former Ottyniowice, Eastern Galicia). He studied at the Lviv School of Painting of Jan Maszkowski and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Vienna (1852–1858). Artur Grottger is a leading representative of Polish Romanticism, as well as a painter, periodical illustrator, graphic artist, and watercolourist. He is the author of six patriotic art cycles regarding the January Uprising against the Russian occupation of Poland of 1863, portraits, and local history materials. Artur Grottger died after a severe illness in Amélie-les-Bains, France, in 1867. He was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv (field No.95).

Object description

On a grey background with lightning on the right, a child is depicted sitting on white pillows in a cradle, from which a white coverlet hangs down on the right. The child is dressed in a white shirt with the same collar and elbow-length sleeves.

Inscriptions

In the bottom centre, the artist's inscription: "Pieniaki 12. Lip: / R. P. 1862".

Portrayed person