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Self-Portrait

Szczesna Dzialynska

Basic information

ID: Ж-5989
Author: Szczesna Dzialynska
Name: Self-Portrait
Date of creation: 1806
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions: 60 x 47.5 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Plot: Portrait
Provenance: Museum of Jan III Sobieski in Lviv Lviv Historical Museum

Information about author

Author: Szczesna Dzialynska
Author in the original: Szczęsna Działyńska
Artist's lifetime: 1770–1831
Country: Poland
Biography: Szczesna Dzialynska was an amateur artist and the daughter of Bielsk Castellan Jakub Woronicz and Jozefa Drohojowska. In 1784, she became the wife of Polish general Ignacy Jozef Dzialynski, who participated in the Kosciuszko Uprising.

Object description

On a black background is a waist-length frontal portrait of a young woman in a blue dress with a neckline adorned with grey lace. A dark grey shawl falls from the girl's right shoulder. The woman's hair is chestnut brown and of medium length. She has a bright blush on her cheeks. Her confident blue eyes are directed at the viewer.

Inscriptions

On the reverse side is an inscription in Polish: "Hrabina Działyńska robiła ten swój portret swoją ręką w roku 1806".

Portrayed person