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Cossack (Artur Grottger on Horseback)

Artur Grottger

Basic information

ID: Г-V-666/2
Author: Artur Grottger
Name: Cossack (Artur Grottger on Horseback)
Date of creation: 1849 (?)
Technique: drawing
Material: paper pencil
Dimensions: 13.7 x 21 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: graphic art
Genre: narrative art
Provenance: Collection of Lviv City Gallery

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

In the center of the composition there is a rider depicted on a white horse; he is racing up. The rider's head is turned back. He is dressed in a dark Cossack uniform and a hat with a hanging fabric top. In his wide belt there are two pistols. Behind the rider, one can see indistinct silhouettes of two other riders, which seem to be chasing the main character.

Inscriptions

In the right lower corner of the work there is the author's inscription "Art.Grodger" and date "184...". In the right upper corner of the work there is number "10" in print.

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