Walerian Krycinski (1852-1929), Sketches
Pencil drawing on paper, 40.5 x 28.5 cm (border), sketch of a woman 29 x 20.5 cm, sketch of a well 8.5 x 15 cm.
Signed lower right corner, with date and place of execution.
The sketch of the woman was made in Vienna 1877, the drawing of the well is later, dated 1991. Both drawings were secondarily pasted on paper.
State of preservation: good ( paper losses in the corners of the drawing depicting a woman)
Walerian Kryciński- Polish painter, draughtsman and illustrator associated with Cracow. A pupil of Jan Matejko and a participant in the Krakow artistic community of the second half of the 19th century. He created numerous figure studies, architectural sketches, genre scenes and decorative designs, valued for the precision of his drawing and characteristic academic discipline of form. His works, often executed in pencil on rag paper, are a valuable testimony to the workshop practice of the era.
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