Jacek Malczewski (1854 Radom - 1929 Krakow), Portrait of a man, 1922.

oil, plywood, 56.5 × 62 cm
signed, dated and described p. d.: "Stróże/1922/J.Malczewski"

"While female models in the course of many years of Malczewski's mature work cyclically changed in terms of beauty, in the case of male models, in some way close to the painter, even if they were also affected by rotation over a long period of time, they constantly present the same type of beauty and, to a large extent, styles of clothing in which they appear in paintings. (...) Malczewski's favorite type of model is a dark-haired man with a breakfasty southern complexion." (D. Kudelska, "The Duct of Writing and Brush. Intellectual Biography of Jacek Malczewski," Lublin 2008, pp. 763-764)