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Portrait of a Young Woman

Artur Grottger

Basic information

ID: Г-I-350
Author: Artur Grottger
Name: Portrait of a Young Woman
Date of creation: c.1852 (?)
Technique: watercolour
Material: paper watercolour
Dimensions: 22.8 x 17.5 cm (height x width)

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Type: graphic art
Genre: portraiture
Provenance: Collection of Leon Pininski

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

This is a bust-length image of a young black-haired girl; her face is turned to the viewer’s left. She is wearing a closed gray dress with a white collar. The girl’s hair is combed back and framed with a braid. Her facial features are characterized by large wide-open eyes, arched wide eyebrows, and thin stiff lips. She is looking upwards. The background of the work is blurred.

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Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery

Portrait of a Young Woman

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