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Historical Figures: Jozef Poniatowski, Zygmunt II August, Stephen Bathory / Historical Figure of Henryk Walezy

Stanislaw Wyspianski

Basic information

ID: Г-V-665/63а,б
Author: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Name: Historical Figures: Jozef Poniatowski, Zygmunt II August, Stephen Bathory / Historical Figure of Henryk Walezy
Date of creation: 1900 (?)
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions: 30.8 x 21.5 cm (height x width)

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Type: graphic art
Genre: portraiture
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 sketch of three human figures depicted without any facial features. The figure at the bottom, which is to the viewer’s left, is shown in a hussar uniform and in a high headdress. On his left shoulder there is an epaulette. The left hand is leaning on the sabre (?). Next to him there is a silhouette depicted in a high headdress and with a long mustache. The sketch of the clothes resembles a noble costume of the 17th century. b) This is a sketch of a human figure depicted without any facial features with a royal crown on his head and a sabre on the left side.

Legal regulation

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

Historical Figures: Jozef Poniatowski, Zygmunt II August, Stephen Bathory / Historical Figure of Henryk Walezy

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