Church in Staszow (K. W. Kielisinski's Album)
Kajetan Kielisinski
Basic information
- ID
- Г-IV-1059_15
- Author
- Kajetan Kielisinski
- Name
- Church in Staszow (K. W. Kielisinski's Album)
- Technique
- etching
- Material
- paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 35.3 cm (height x width)
Additionally
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Jan Konstanty Żupański issued "Kielisiński's Album", gathering the artist's scattered works, most of which had remained unpublished during his lifetime.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 an intimate rural landscape. In the centre of the composition, on a hill among trees, stands a small wooden church with a helmet-shaped dome surmounted by a cross. A bell tower is located to the left of the shrine. On either side of the church rise village cottages beneath thatched roofs. The entire sacred complex is surrounded by a wattle fence.
Along the foreground runs a rural road, in the centre of which is a staffage figure of a peasant with a staff and a heavy bundle on his back, walking along the fence towards the left.
The graphic sheet demonstrates the author's masterful command of the etching needle, where various textures are convincingly rendered by means of detailed hatching: thatched roofs, a wattle fence, wooden beams, and tree crowns.
The presented etching belongs to the graphic sheets published within this 1855 supplement.
The sheet depicts an intimate rural landscape. In the centre of the composition, on a hill among trees, stands a small wooden church with a helmet-shaped dome surmounted by a cross. A bell tower is located to the left of the shrine. On either side of the church rise village cottages beneath thatched roofs. The entire sacred complex is surrounded by a wattle fence.
Along the foreground runs a rural road, in the centre of which is a staffage figure of a peasant with a staff and a heavy bundle on his back, walking along the fence towards the left.
The graphic sheet demonstrates the author's masterful command of the etching needle, where various textures are convincingly rendered by means of detailed hatching: thatched roofs, a wattle fence, wooden beams, and tree crowns.
Inscriptions
Beneath the image, the artist's inscriptions read: on the left – "KWK. rys. z n. 1836." [Drawn from nature by KWK. 1836]; and on the right – "rob. aqf. 1838. 4. Mar." [Executed in etching. 4 March 1838].
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
