Jan Rosen, IN THE SERVICE OF THE FATHER, 1926

46,8 x 59,5 cm - watercolor, gouache, cardboard IN THE SERVICE OF THE LAND, 1926 (from the series History of One Lancer)

signed p.d.: J. Rosen | 1926



on the reverse:

- along the top edge (in pencil): No. 1 "For the Service of the Fatherland" | Cycle "The Story of One Lancer";

- beside (in crayon): K;

- centrally, the trademark of English watercolor sub-image manufacturer Winsor & Newton;

- l.d. stamp: Ditta GIUSEPPE GIANNINI | FIRENZE (2) | 13, Via Tornabuoni (Suee[...] Pittl, 17);

- p.d. stamp: Polska Sp Pozłotników | Sp. Z ogr. odpow.| Warsaw, Jasna 13/15 | Tel. 251-61 | 1927 [in pencil];

- on upper frame strip, sticker of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw (stamp, typescript, print, ink): 22938 Author Rosen Jan 22938 | Title History of the Lancer VI 22938 execution | Price Owner Wł. Chojecki Date OCTOBER 1932;

- on the bottom bar of the frame a sticker of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw (stamp, print, ink): 01793 Author Rosen Jan | Title Award Type of work gouache | Price Owner Date.



Provenance: collection of the Paskowski Family in the USA.

Dr. Richard and Catherine Paskowski were both born in New York as children of Polish immigrants. Although they lived in the United States, they cherished their Polish heritage, traveled throughout Poland and spent years amassing a fine collection of Polish art. They made many donations to Polish causes in the US. They also wanted the remainder of the collection to go back to Poland and please Polish collectors.



The painting exhibited and reproduced:

- Guide to the Exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts No. 30, Warsaw 1928, p. 16, cat. no. 249 (Award - owned by W. Chojecki);

- Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw for 1927, Warsaw 1928, p. 45 (Award);

- Guide to the Exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts No. 77, Warsaw 1932, p. 10, cat. no. 67 (For the Service of the Fatherland - property of W. Chojecki);

- Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw for 1932, Warsaw 1933, p. 26 (The story of one lancer VI);

- Stanisława Janczewska - gelatin negative on glass - collection of the National Museum in Warsaw inv. no. DDWneg.10445 MNW.



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Jan Rosen (Warsaw 1854 - Warsaw 1936), a popular painter-battleman, took his first drawing lessons as a child - with Henryk Redlich in Dresden and Franciszek Kostrzewski in Warsaw. Later, between 1872 and 1874, he studied in Munich - at the Academy under Alexander Strähuber and sculptor Ferdinand Barth and in the private studio of Jozef Brandt, and between 1875 and 1879 at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Isidor Pils and Jean-Léon Gerome. He was out of the country for a long time and traveled extensively; he lived in Munich, Paris and Lausanne. In 1891 he became court painter of the St. Petersburg court. He returned to the country in 1921; initially he lived in the countryside, later in Warsaw and Lviv. He also traveled to Italy. He mainly painted military paintings, battle scenes from the Napoleonic era and the November Uprising, as well as genre paintings with his favorite motif of horsemen and horses.