Antoni Piotrowski (1853 Nietulisko Duże near Kunów - 1924 Warsaw), On the way to the hunt, 1883

oil/canvas
Dimensions: 59 x 92 cm
Signed, dated and inscribed l.d.: 'A. Piotrowski. 1883 Paris. | attellage à deux. | .Pologne.''
on the painter's loom a fragmentarily preserved sheet with the painter's biography in English, auction stickers on the frame

Origin
private collection, United States
Sotheby's, London, July 2021
private collection, Poland

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 pupil 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.