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Portrait of Gabriel Baczynski

Marcin Jablonski

Basic information

ID: Ж-6127
Author: Marcin Jablonski
Name: Portrait of Gabriel Baczynski
Date of creation: 1841
Country: Austrian Empire
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions: 71 x 58.6 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Plot: Portrait
Provenance: Lviv Historical Museum

Information about author

Author: Marcin Jablonski
Author in the original: Marcin Jabłoński
Artist's lifetime: 1801–1876
Country: Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Ukraine
Biography: Marcin Jablonski (1801–1876) was an artist, lithographer, portraitist, and master of temple paintings. He was born in the village of Glogow in Galicia. The artist received his art education in Lviv, Warsaw, Krakow, and Vienna. His creative work was initially related to religious painting, as he painted about 120 altar icons. The artistic heritage of Marcin Jablonski includes 1600 portraits. In 1850, the artist founded a publishing and lithographic workshop in Lviv, where he himself worked.

Object description

The work shows a half-length portrait of a young man sitting in a chair with green upholstery. The subject is depicted against a neutral brown background, in a slight turn to the right, looking at the viewer. The round face is framed by wide black sideburns that form a chin curtain (or "pantaloon"). The fashionable hairstyle of the time, with curled hair above the forehead, characterises this gentleman as a dandy. The man is dressed in a black tailcoat, under which a red waistcoat and a white shirt are visible. A black bow tie is tied and secured with a decorative silver pin. With his right hand, the man leans on the wooden armrest of the chair. A gold ring is on the index finger of his right hand.

Inscriptions

In the lower right, the artist's signature and date: "Jabłoński 1841". On the reverse, there is an inscription: "Gabriel Baczyński, właściciel Wólki w latach 1835–1845 / mal. Jabłoński, 2 № 1883".

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