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Sketch of a Woman

Maurycy Gottlieb

Basic information

ID: Г-V-688
Author: Maurycy Gottlieb
Name: Sketch of a Woman
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions: 9.2 x 14.4 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 woman in a headscarf standing and holding either a child in swaddling or a full sack in her arms. To her right is a faintly outlined facade of a building with an arch and a lantern on the wall. On the reverse side is a sketch of a man in a wide-brimmed hat (a cowboy). The drawing is crossed out.

Inscriptions

In the bottom right is the artist's signature: "M. G".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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