Grandfather Blesses the Officer

Marceli Maszkowski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-454
Author: Marceli Maszkowski
Name: Grandfather Blesses the Officer
Date of creation: 1855
Country: Austrian Empire
Culture: Modern times
Technique: gouache
Material: cardboard pencil chalk gouache
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 31.6 x 23.5

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: symbolic art
Provenance: the Dzieduszycki collection

Information about author

Author: Marceli Maszkowski
Artist's lifetime: 1837–1862
Country: Austrian Empire
Biography: Marceli Maszkowski (1837, Lviv – 1862, Lviv) was a Polish and Ukrainian portrait painter, lithographer, and sculptor. He was the son of the artist Jan Maszkowski. He studied painting under his father, Jan Maszkowski, and then continued his education at the academies in Vienna and Munich. For a time, he lived and worked in Leipzig and Dresden, where he created magazine illustrations. He primarily painted portraits of prominent figures in the Lviv community.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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