Jan ROSEN (1854 - 1936), On the Hunt, 1884

heliogravure, cardboard, 27 x 35.5 cm (in light of frame), signed on panel p. d. and under composition: "J.ROSEN PXT" and "HELIOGRAVIURE V.ANGERERA"; title of painting in Polish and French; additional inscriptions: "Print of the Tow. spread. Fine Arts in Vienna"; "MAURICH ROBICZK'S MAIN STORE IN WARSAW". The graphic comes from the collection "Album of Polish Painters in Etchings" published in 1884. It was a pioneering publication on Polish soil of great importance for the dissemination of the work of contemporary Polish artists, especially during the partitions.

Jan Rosen took drawing lessons as a child - in Dresden with H Redlich and in Warsaw with F Kostrzewski. He then studied in Munich - at the Academy and at J. Brandt's private studio - as well as in Paris with I. Pils and J. L. Gerome. He traveled extensively in Europe and lived in Munich, Paris and Lausanne. He painted mainly military paintings, battle scenes from the Napoleonic era and the November Uprising, as well as genre paintings with his favorite motif of horsemen and horses.

Aureliusz Pruszyński (9.09.1847 Kasinka Mała pow. Limanowa - 22.04.1904 Krakow) a Krakow lithographer, owner of the highly regarded Aureliusz Pruszyński Artistic Lithography Workshop in Krakow founded in 1873 at 17 Pijarska Street, from ca 1902 the owner of the workshop was his son Zenon Pruszyński (see SAP vol. 8 pp. 92-93). In the factory of A. Pruszyński, from the end of the 19th century, leading artists of Cracow reflected their graphic works in lithography (including posters), including the famous "Teka Melpomena"