Dimensions: 23 x 13.5 cm
signed, dated and inscribed l.d.: '123/4 1892 | WE'
described at top: '36 Sigismund III Vasa *1566 crowned 1587, aged 21 | + 1632'.
drawing for illustration in Seweryna Duchinska's book "Polish Kings in Images and Songs".
Origins
private collection, Cracow
DESA Unicum, February 2018
private collection, Poland
Literature
S. Duchińska, Królowie polscy w obrazach i pieśniach, Poznań 1893, p. 99 (il.).
Biography
Walery Eljasz Radzikowski was a pupil of Władysław Łuszczkiewicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (1856-62). Influenced by his work, he began to paint historical compositions. He continued his painting studies in Munich, where he specialized in watercolor painting in the studio of Theodor Horschett (1862-65). Radzikowski's oeuvre developed in two thematic trends - the first included historical compositions, inspired by the national past and literary fiction; the second trend included landscape painting, especially views of the Tatra Mountains.