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Portrait of Two Girls of the Dzieduszycki Family with a Dog

Artur Grottger

Basic information

ID: Г-V-188
Author: Artur Grottger
Name: Portrait of Two Girls of the Dzieduszycki Family with a Dog
Date of creation: 1866
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: portraiture

Information about author

Author: Artur Grottger
Author in the original: Artur Grottger
Artist's lifetime: 1837–1867
Country: Austrian Empire
Biography: Artur Grottger was born in 1837 in the village of Otynevychi in the Lviv region (former Ottyniowice, Eastern Galicia). He studied at the Lviv School of Painting of Jan Maszkowski and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and Vienna (1852–1858). Artur Grottger is a leading representative of Polish Romanticism, as well as a painter, periodical illustrator, graphic artist, and watercolourist. He is the author of six patriotic art cycles regarding the January Uprising against the Russian occupation of Poland of 1863, portraits, and local history materials. Artur Grottger died after a severe illness in Amélie-les-Bains, France, in 1867. He was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv (field No.95).

Object description

The upper part of the work resembles an architectural arch. One can see two young teenage girls; they are wearing white dresses girded with ribbons that are tied behind their backs. The girl on the left is shorter; her shoulder-length hair is framed by a headband (?). The gaze is directed at the viewer. The girl on the right is older, she is looking down. Her hair is combed back, there is a neat hair parting in the middle. Between the girls there is a large figure of a short-haired dog (Great Dane ?). It is black while its paws and chest are white; the neck of the dog is decorated with a massive braided collar with a tassel. The dog's left paw is raised. The girl on the left is holding the dog with her both hands. Children's figures are depicted in the background of a gallery decorated with two landscape paintings. The floor, on which the characters are depicted, is of light color; it is reflecting the figures’ shadows.

Inscriptions

In the left lower part of the work there is the author's inscription "AG" and "Pani Dzieduszycki 1866".

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