With a Star on Three Kings Day (K. W. Kielisinski's Album)
Kajetan Kielisinski
Basic information
- ID
- Г-IV-1059_8
- Author
- Kajetan Kielisinski
- Name
- With a Star on Three Kings Day (K. W. Kielisinski's Album)
- Technique
- etching
- Material
- paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 35.3 cm (height x width)
Additionally
- Type
- graphic art
- Genre
- genre art
- Provenance
- Transferred by the Lviv State Republican Historical Museum, 1951
Information about author
Object description
Kajetan Kielisiński created numerous etchings and drawings dedicated to folklore, the life of Polish villages and towns, historical monuments, and landscapes. In 1853, the Poznań publisher Jan Konstanty Żupański issued "Kielisiński's Album", gathering the artist's scattered works, most of which had remained unpublished during his lifetime. Two years later, in 1855, Żupański released a supplementary volume to complement the previous edition, which included etchings depicting coins and seals, figures in historical costumes, alongside rural and urban landscapes.
The presented etching belongs to the graphic sheets published within this 1855 supplement. The sheet depicts a scene from the traditional winter carolling ritual on the Feast of the Three Kings.
Three full-length figures of men are shown standing beneath a cottage window in the evening. In the foreground stands the lead caroller, wearing a long sheepskin coat secured with a belt and a tall hat. In his right hand, he holds a glowing four-pointed Christmas star featuring a sacred scene within its central circle. Behind him stands a second performer in a similar hat, playing the violin. To the left, in the shadows, the figure of a third man in a wide-brimmed hat is visible, leaning on a staff.
To the right is a large window with a latticed frame. Through the panes, inside the illuminated room, the dark silhouette of the inhabitant (the host) can be discerned. The light source from the interior softly illuminates the carollers' faces.
On the lower white margin beneath the print, a pencil inscription in Polish reads: "z GWIAZDĄ na TRZY KRÓLE / w Medyce w Cyrk. Przemyśl." – [With a Star on Three Kings Day / in Medyka in the Przemysl District].
The presented etching belongs to the graphic sheets published within this 1855 supplement. The sheet depicts a scene from the traditional winter carolling ritual on the Feast of the Three Kings.
Three full-length figures of men are shown standing beneath a cottage window in the evening. In the foreground stands the lead caroller, wearing a long sheepskin coat secured with a belt and a tall hat. In his right hand, he holds a glowing four-pointed Christmas star featuring a sacred scene within its central circle. Behind him stands a second performer in a similar hat, playing the violin. To the left, in the shadows, the figure of a third man in a wide-brimmed hat is visible, leaning on a staff.
To the right is a large window with a latticed frame. Through the panes, inside the illuminated room, the dark silhouette of the inhabitant (the host) can be discerned. The light source from the interior softly illuminates the carollers' faces.
On the lower white margin beneath the print, a pencil inscription in Polish reads: "z GWIAZDĄ na TRZY KRÓLE / w Medyce w Cyrk. Przemyśl." – [With a Star on Three Kings Day / in Medyka in the Przemysl District].
Inscriptions
Below the image is the inscription: "z GWIAZDA na TRZY KROLE / w Medyce w Cyrk. Przemysl." – [With a Star on Three Kings Day / in Medyka in the Przemysl District].
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
