pencil, pastel/paper
Dimensions: 42.5 x 28 cm (inside the mat)
The drawings depict studies for Jan Styka’s paintings reproduced in the Paris catalog of the 1888 exhibition of Jan Styka’s works
Provenance:
The Paul Schlockoff family collection.
Private collection, Poland
Condition
moderate tear in the paper; signs of water damage
Biography
He studied at the Vienna Academy, in Rome, and at the Kraków School of Fine Arts under Jan Matejko. From 1900 onward, he lived permanently in Paris. He was a member of the Academy of St. Luke in Rome. He painted portraits, genre scenes, as well as religious paintings and large historical compositions in the spirit of academic painting. He created series of paintings illustrating literary works—Homer’s *Odyssey* and Sienkiewicz’s *Quo Vadis*. He was the initiator and co-creator of several panoramas, of which the following, painted jointly with Wojciech Kossak (and others)—'Racławice' (1893–94; currently in Wrocław, formerly in Lviv)—and, together with Jan Stanisławski and Tadeusz Popiel, 'Golgotha' (1896; currently in Los Angeles). Fragments of the ‘Battle of Sibin’ (1897), which had been cut into pieces, appeared several times at auctions in Warsaw in 1991.
