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In Front of the Shop Window / Ride

Artur Grottger

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ID: Г-V-418/Г-V-419
Author: Artur Grottger
Name: In Front of the Shop Window / Ride
Date of creation: c.1849 (?)
Technique: drawing
Material: paper Indian ink pen

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Type: graphic art album sheet
Genre: narrative art
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 composition consists of two parts. The left part depicts the images of a girl and a woman wearing dresses and wide-brimmed hats. They are holding purse bags and folded umbrellas in their hands. Below the figures is an inscription in Polish, which begins with the words "Munia (A. Grottger's sister – an author's note) and Pani Paulina…". In the right part of the work, there is an image of a carriage drawn by one horse. The coach is of a two-seater and closed type. The figure of a horse is depicted in rapid motion. A coachman whipping a horse is losing his headdress – a black top hat – because of a fast ride. In the background of the carriage, there is a two-story house. Below the image, there is an inscription in Polish that begins with the words "Jadą!" ("They are riding!").

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