House and Part of the Garden in Medyka (K. W. Kielisinski's Album)
Kajetan Kielisinski
Basic information
- ID
- Г-IV-1059_23
- Author
- Kajetan Kielisinski
- Name
- House and Part of the Garden in Medyka (K. W. Kielisinski's Album)
- Technique
- etching
- Material
- paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 35.3 cm (height x width)
Additionally
- Type
- graphic art
- Genre
- landscape
- 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Jan Konstanty Żupański issued "Kielisiński's Album", gathering the artist's scattered works, most of which had remained unpublished during his lifetime.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 panoramic rectangular composition showing a view of a two-storey Classicist manor house (palace), situated on the opposite bank of a body of water and surrounded by a lush park.
A significant part of the foreground is occupied by the calm expanse of a river or a pond. On the left, a wooden boat with two figures is depicted on the water. In the centre of the water body, swans are swimming. On the left, in the middle ground, the roofs and towers of village buildings can be discerned.
The etching is executed with a fine line, by means of which Kielisiński masterfully renders various textures: the mirror-like surface of the water, the clear sky, and the texture of the tree foliage.
The presented etching belongs to the graphic sheets published within this 1855 supplement.
The sheet depicts a panoramic rectangular composition showing a view of a two-storey Classicist manor house (palace), situated on the opposite bank of a body of water and surrounded by a lush park.
A significant part of the foreground is occupied by the calm expanse of a river or a pond. On the left, a wooden boat with two figures is depicted on the water. In the centre of the water body, swans are swimming. On the left, in the middle ground, the roofs and towers of village buildings can be discerned.
The etching is executed with a fine line, by means of which Kielisiński masterfully renders various textures: the mirror-like surface of the water, the clear sky, and the texture of the tree foliage.
Inscriptions
Beneath the image, the artist's inscriptions read: on the left – "KWK. r. z. n. 1837." [Drawn from nature by KWK. 1837]; and on the right – "rob. aqf. 1838. 25 Mar." [Executed in etching. 25 March 1838].
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
