Dimensions: 35 x 47 cm
Signed and dated l.d.: 'Jan Matejko r.p. 1877.'
On the reverse the stamp of a store with painting supplies: 'A. Chramosta | Zur Stadt Düsseldorf | Wien Kärtnerstrasse 20' and stamps referring to the size of the subpainting:''13 1/2 18'' and '1 73''
other titles: Stanislaw Bishop Szczepanowski admonishing Boleslaw the Bold, Saint Stanislaw and Boleslaw the Bold, Stanislaw St. Thundering Boleslaw the Bold, Stanislaw Szczepanowski admonishing Boleslaw, Bishop Szczepanowski admonishing Boleslaw the Bold
Origins
owned by the artist
purchase from the artist by Henryk Redlich for an unknown person in Warsaw
private collection, Poland
DESA Unicum, June 2021
institutional collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
Exposition d'art polonais. Au Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Grand Palais, Paris, April 13-June 30, 1921
Town Hall Hall, Warsaw, 1878
Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland, Warsaw,1877
Society of Friends of Fine Arts, Cracow, 1876
Literature
Jerzy Krawczyk, Jan Matejko. Master of the Legend of St. Stanislaus, Warsaw, 1998, p. 66
Ewa Micke-Broniarek, Matejko in tribute. On the centenary of the artist's death, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 1993, pp. 138-139, cat. no. 49 (ill.).
Matejko. Oil Paintings. Catalog, edited and with an introduction by Krystyna Sroczyńska, Warsaw 1993, pp. 19, 148, cat. no. 172 (ill.)
Janina Wiercińska, Maria Liczbińska, Polish Bibliography of Art 1801-1944, vol. 1, part 2, Wrocław 1976, pp. 7670, 7671
Janina Wiercińska, Catalogue of works exhibited at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the years 1850-1914, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1969, p. 226
Mieczysław Porębski, Painted history, Warsaw 1961, p. 170
Janina Grabowska-Wiercińska, Bibliography, in Jan Matejko. Materials from a scientific session devoted to the work of the artist, Warsaw 1957, pp. 665, 666, 1317, 1319, 1323, 1471
Stanisława Serafińska, Jan Matejko. Family recollections, Cracow 1955, p. 659
Mieczyslaw Treter, Matejko. Artistic personality, creativity, form and style, Lvov 1939, pp. 297, 316, 324 (ill.), 526
Jan Matejko. Studies and sketches, Cracow 1938, p. 43
Ludwik Grajewski, Bibliografia ilustracji w czasopismach polskich XIX i pocz. XX w. (to 1918), Warsaw 1972; earlier edition: Bibliografia ilustracji do sztuki, zabytków i pamiątek artystów polskich, vol. I - do 1924 wł., Lwów 1933 (typescript reproduced), item 10181
Catalogue de l'exposition d'art polonais. Au Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Grand Palais), Paris 1921, cat. no. 97.
Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Matejko, 2nd edition, Lvov 1912 (and other editions), ill. 116
"Biesiada Literacka" 1909, no. 19, p. 365 (ill.)
Emmanuel Swieykowski, Memoirs of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow 1854-1904, Krakow 1905, p. 104 (mentioned in the list of works)
"Biesiada Literacka" 1903, no. 41, p. 293 (ill.)
Marian Gorzkowski, Jan Matejko. The era of the later years, to the end of the artist's life. From a diary kept during seventeen years, Cracow 1898, p. 95
Stanisław Tarnowski, Matejko, Kraków 1897, pp. 192, 510
Marian Gorzkowski, On the artistic activities of Jan Matejko from his earliest years, i.e. from 1850 to the end of 1881, Cracow 1881, p. 72
"Tygodnik Ilustrowany" 1878, vol. 6, no. 152, p. 329 (il.)
"Literary Feast" 1878, no. 130, p. 407
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland for the year 1877, Warsaw 1878, p. 68
"Family Chronicle" 1877, no. 15, p. 239
Report of the Directorate of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Cracow from activities in the year 1876/7, Cracow 1877, R. XXIII, cat. no. 122, p. 9
Biography
From 1852 to 1858 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under W. K. Stattler and W. Luszczkiewicz. He continued his studies in Munich in 1859- 1860 with H. Anschütz and at the Academy in Vienna with C. Ruben (1860). From 1873 he was director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, and in 1887 he became associate professor of h.c. Jagiellonian University. He received many awards and honors, including a gold medal in Paris in 1865 and a first-class gold medal at the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1867. He traveled extensively, including to Paris, Vienna, Turkey, Hungary and Italy. Since the mid-1850s, he mainly created paintings of his native history, preceded by thorough historical and monumental studies. His paintings are mostly huge compositions with great expressive power, characterized by a combination of realistic observation and documentary accuracy of details with dynamic compositional arrangements of the whole picture. His paintings imbued with deep patriotism, showed the Polish public visions of the past and played a major role in strengthening national consciousness. Matejko produced one of the greatest works of Polish monumental painting-a polychrome painting in St. Mary's Church in Krakow-and a series of drawings called "Poczet królów i książąt polskich."
