Jan ROSEN (1854-1936), Before the Hunt

Woodcut, paper; 17 x 22 cm (light frame);
Signed on the plate p. d.: J. Rosen.
Jan Bogumił Rosen (born October 16, 1854 in Warsaw, died November 8, 1936 there)-Polish painter. Already in childhood he took drawing lessons in Dresden with Henryk Redlich and in Warsaw with Franciszek Kostrzewski. He studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts (from 1872), also in the private studio of Jozef Brandt, then at the Paris Académie des Beaux Arts (with Isidor Pils, Jean-Léon Gérôme). He traveled extensively in Europe as an artist, and in 1891 became court painter of the St. Petersburg court. He returned to his homeland in 1921. He painted mainly 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. [za: min. Wikipedia].