Size: 17 x 23.5 cm
signed and dated l.d.: 'J Ch 1872'.
on the reverse, hardly legible red stamp of Munich painters' supplies store
State of preservation
Expert opinion of Tadeusz Matuszczak dated December 2022
Origin
collection of countess Łubieńska, Cracow
collection of Karol Tchorek, sculptor, collector and art dealer (1904-1985)
collection of the heirs of Karol Tchorek, Poland
Exhibited
Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow, Exhibition of one hundred years of Polish painting, 1929
Literature
Tadeusz Matuszczak, Chełmoński poszukiwany, Radziejowice 2014, p. 30
Zenon Skierski, The color of the world, Warsaw 1957, p. 338
Krystyna Czarnocka, Józef Chełmoński, Warsaw 1957, p. 27 (mentioned)
One Hundred Years of Polish Painting 1800-1900. (Works of non-living artists), exhibition catalog, Cracow 1929, cat. no. 32, p. 9
Biography
In 1867-71 he studied painting at the Drawing Class and at Wojciech Gerson's private studio in Warsaw. In 1871-74 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was associated with the Polish artistic colony centered around Jozef Brandt and Maksymilian Gierymski. Formative moments for Chelmonski's work were his travels to Podolia and Ukraine (1872 and 1874-75). Until 1887 he lived in Paris, where his paintings were very popular. He then returned to Poland, settling in Kuklówka near Grodzisk Mazowiecki. He was one of the most outstanding Polish landscape painters of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted realistic and atmospheric in character landscapes and genre scenes inspired by Mazovian or borderland nature. Chelmonski's paintings are in the most important public collections in Poland, as well as European and American private collections.
