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Gate with Towers near the Bridge in Chartres

Stanislaw Wyspianski

  • Gate with Towers near the Bridge in Chartres
Basic information
ID
Г-V-665/10
Author
Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name
Gate with Towers near the Bridge in Chartres
Date of creation
1890
Technique
drawing
Material
tracing paper on paper Indian ink pen
Dimensions
16.5 x 20.2 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
The picture represents the castle complex with two circular shaped towers (Romanesque architecture) and an arcade bridge over the river.
Inscriptions
At the bottom there is an inscription "Chartres" written illegibly in Polish and followed by an illegible inscription and a creation date 1890.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

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