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Three Sketches

Maurycy Gottlieb

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Basic information
ID
Г-V-693
Author
Maurycy Gottlieb
Name
Three Sketches
Country
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Technique
drawing
Material
paper pencil pen
Dimensions
9.4 x 14.3 cm (height x width)
Additionally
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
On the left side of the sheet are sketches of two female heads: a young girl (above) and an older woman (below). In the centre of the sheet is a full-length depiction of a woman in a hat, jacket, and long skirt, sitting with her right leg crossed over her left. The woman props up her head with her right hand.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
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