Dimensions: 46 x 37.5 cm
Signed p.d.: 'A. Piotrowski.'
on the reverse a paper exhibition sticker of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw and a stamp with the number: '8' referring to the size of the subpainting
Provenance
the artist's legacy
collection of the artist's wife, Maria Piotrowska
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Posthumous exhibition of Antoni Piotrowski
, The Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Warsaw, October 31-November 25, 1925
Literature
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw for 1925, Warsaw 1926, p. 28
Guide No. VII to the exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. Catalog of the exhibition by Antoni Piotrowski, Warsaw 1925, p. 20, cat. no. 69
Biography
From 1869 he studied at the Warsaw Drawing Class under Wojciech Gerson. From 1875 to 1877 he studied at the Munich Academy, and from 1877 to 1879 he was a student of Jan Matejko at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow. From 1885 to 1887 he traveled to Bulgaria as a correspondent-illustrator for English and French magazines documenting the Bulgarian-Serbian War. While in Bulgaria, he painted a series of paintings for the National Gallery in Sofia and made a career as a portraitist of the aristocracy. In 1897 and 1903 he traveled to the Middle East, from where he sent correspondence and drawings from the Greco-Turkish War. He painted mainly genre scenes, often of Mazovian village life. He also painted historical paintings, episodes from the January Uprising and portraits. He participated in the painting of the Berezina panorama.
