Girl from Borshchovychi

On an olive background is a bust-length figure of a girl turned three quarters to the viewer's left. The portrayed girl is dressed in a light blue svyta (long outer garment) with dark blue wide lapels and a red patterned trim. From under the svyta, one can see a white shirt with a turn-down collar and a red ribbon. Around the girl's neck are ochre coral necklaces, and a wide wreath with red flowers and green leaves is on her head. The girl's gaze is confident and directed to the left. A young emotionless face is highlighted by light. The artist depicted the girl in a mid-nineteenth-century urban costume of Galicia. Artur Grottger repeatedly referred to the Ukrainian folk theme: several years later (in 1960) and even in the last year of his life, living in Paris. In this theme, the artist reflected the most sacred things – dreamy melodiousness and full of human warmth lifestyle, revealing in his paintings the world of romantic visions, ideologically concentrated and very close to the romantic poetry of that time.

At the bottom left, there is a monogram-signature: "AG" (interlaced letters), on the right there is: "Barszczowice 15/10. 856"

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery