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View of Chartres

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-665/6а,б
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: View of Chartres
Date of creation: 1890
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions: 19.8 x 15.9 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: architecture painting
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery

Information about author

Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Author in the original: Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański
Artist's lifetime: 1869–1907
Country: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Biography: Stanislaw Wyspianski was born in 1869 in Krakow. He studied at the Jagiellonian University and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He was a member of the Young Poland movement, and art editor of the weekly Życie (Life). Stanislaw Wyspianski is known as a playwright and poet, modernist painter, and designer. The artist died in November 1907. He was buried in Krakow.

Object description

a) This is a landscape of urban development with a river. Across the river, one can see an image of two stone bridge’s arches; five human figures are vaguely depicted on it. b) This is a landscape of urban development above the river (?); in the foreground there is a tree (?). In the left part of the work, two Gothic spires of the cathedral are shown.

Inscriptions

a) At the right top there is an inscription "Chartres" and the date "5 czerwca 1890". On the bottom right there is the author monogram. b) At the right top there is an inscription "Chartres".

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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