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Sleeping Boy. Sketch

Maurycy Gottlieb

Basic information

ID: Г-V-692
Author: Maurycy Gottlieb
Name: Sleeping Boy. Sketch
Date of creation: 1875
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pen Indian ink
Dimensions: 9.4 x 14.3 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: genre art
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery

Information about author

Author: Maurycy Gottlieb
Artist's lifetime: 1856–1879
Country: Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Maurycy Gottlieb (1856, Drohobych – 1879, Krakow) was a Polish painter of Jewish origin. He studied at the art academies of Vienna and Krakow and was a pupil of Jan Matejko. He painted historical and religious compositions based on the Talmud and the Bible and was known as a portraitist.

Object description

The sketch depicts a boy lying on his right side, with his back to the viewer. His right hand is tucked under his head, and his left leg is bent at the knee.

Inscriptions

At the bottom right, there is the artist's signature and date: "M. Gottlieb 1875".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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