Technique- gouache on paper, framed , dimensions in light of frame:30x39 cm, signed.
... "The artist came from the noble Starowieyski family, whose representative was the well-known Polish painter Franciszek Starowieyski, and she herself spent her childhood years in the Iwierzyce manor near Robczyce, owned by her great-grandparents the Michałowskis. The walls of the manor were thickly hung with magnificent watercolors by Piotr Michałowski, an outstanding Polish Romantic painter of the 19th century, painter of horses and battle scenes, and a great patriot. Michalowski's work was significant in the later perception and depiction of genre scenes of Polish village life. His paintings were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century. For many years after his death, the artist remained unknown. Only before World War I was he recognized as an artist of European format. Today, after many years, in the oeuvre of Krystyna Górska, we discover a certain continuation of those compositions, in which the horse occupied a dignified place as the protagonist of the scenes of 19th century Polish painting, becoming inseparable from the tradition of the Polish countryside...." Essay