Dimensions: 28 x 40 cm
signed and dated l.d.: 'Józef Chełmoński | 1871'.
on the reverse, on the selvedge of the canvas, hardly legible stamp of the manufacturer of the paint sub-images (?): '[...]strasse 33'
other historical titles: There are matula, Children in the field, Children in the grain
The painting will be included in the catalog of the monographic exhibition of Józef Chelmonski and, with the owner's permission, will be included in the exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw from September 26, 2024 - January 26, 2025.
State of preservation
compiled by Tadeusz Matuszczak on February 15, 2024
Origins
sale by the artist after the exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1871
from the historic collection of Wanda Czernic-Zalinska (d. 1986), owner of the Skarbiec Salon, Warsaw
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Current exhibition, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland, Warsaw, May 1871
Literature
Joanna M. Sosnowska, Painter. Józef Chełmoński, Warsaw 2021, pp. 29, 30 and 132, il. 8
From Nature and for Nature. Rzecz o Józef Chełmońskim, edited by Wioletta Pilorz, Żyrardów 2013, p. 26.
Tadeusz Matuszczak, Józef Chełmoński, Krakow 2003, p. 12
Ewa Micke-Broniarek, Józef Chełmoński, Wrocław 2001, p. 15 (mentioned) and p. 17 (il.)
Józef Chełmoński (1849-1914). Volume 1. monographic exhibition, exhibition catalog, ed. Tadeusz Matuszczak, National Museum in Poznań, Poznań 1987, pp. 15, 35, 43 and 53, cat. no. 5 (il.) (painting not exhibited)
Jerzy Malinowski, Imitations of the World. On Polish painting and art criticism of the second half of the 19th century, Cracow 1987, p. 162
Alfred Ligocki, Józef Chełmoński, Warsaw 1983, pp. 18, 20, 22, 66, 97 and 102, item 12 (ill.)
Joanna Krzymuska, Józef Chełmoński, Warsaw 1978, p. 16
Maciej Masłowski, Józef Chełmoński, Warsaw 1973, pp. 64 and 160, cat. no. 48 (ill. as "Children in the grain (Matula are)")
Halina Cękalska-Zborowska, Wieś w malarstwie i rysunku naszych artystów, Warsaw 1969, p. 49
Wanda Czernic-Żalińska, Salon Sztuki "Skarbiec" in Warsaw, "Yearbook of the National Museum in Warsaw", vol. 10, Warsaw 1966, p. 496 (as "Children in the grain")
Maciej Masłowski, Malarski żywot Józefa Chełmońskiego, Warsaw 1965, pp. 59, 81 and 82
Krystyna Czarnocka, Józef Chełmoński, Warsaw 1957, pp. 17-20, fig. 4 (as "Matula are (Children in the Field)".
Jan Wegner, Józef Chełmoński in the light of correspondence, Wrocław 1953, pp. 11, 38, footnote 43
Antoni Piotrowski, Józef Chełmoński. Memoir. With 3 portraits and 27 reproductions of his works, Krakow 1917/1918, p. 7 (mentioned as "They are matula")
Henryk Piątkowski, Józef Chełmoński. Exhibition, "Słowo" 1907, no. 91, p. 2
Henryk Piatkowski, Chelmonski. (Collective exhibition of his works in the Zachęta Society.), "Kurier Warszawski" 1907, no. 83, p. 5
Wojciech Gerson, From Painting. III. Exhibition of works by Józef Chelmonski, "Echo Muzyczne, Teatralne i Artystyczne" 1890, no. 346, p. 235
Edward Lubowski, Silva Rerum. Artistic, "Tygodnik Ilustrowany" 1890, no. 19 pp. 302 (as "They are matula" in the list of works wanted for the exhibition)
Monthly Chronicle, "Biblioteka Warszawska" 1890, vol. 2, z. 2, p. 322 (as "They are matula" in the list of works wanted for the exhibition)
Stanisław Witkiewicz, Józef Chełmoński, "Tygodnik Ilustrowany" 1889, no. 314, p. 34.
Report of the Committee of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in the Kingdom of Poland for the year 1874, Warsaw 1875, p. 68 (mentioned as "Są matula" exhibited in 1871)
Paintings at the exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw, "Tygodnik Mód i Powieści" 1871, no. 35, p. 4 (as "They are matula")
Wojciech Gerson, Exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw. (July 1871). (Completion), "Tygodnik Ilustrowany" 1871, no. 188, p. 71.
"They are matula." A copy from a painting by Chelmonski, "Opiekun Domowy" 1871, no. 28, p. 220 (described) and il. (cover)
[Paintings arrived at the exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts...], "Kurjerny Codzienny" 1871, no. 114, p. 3 (as "They are matula")
S, [Exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts...], "Kurier Warszawski" 1871, no. 113, p. 1
Archival photograph of the painting, 1871, National Museum in Warsaw, sign DDWneg.16708 MNW
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. A formative moment for Chelmonski's work was 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.
