54.5 x 94.5cm - watercolor, paper pasted on cardboard signed p.d.: F. Sypniewski | r. 84.
Along the bottom edge (in pencil): Clash with the Muslim Ride
On the back p.g. (in ink): Odsiecz Wiednia | by King | Sobieski | 1683; also a triangular German stamp, barely legible.
Painter. Studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts in 1850-1852, then in Paris around 1857. He lived permanently in Warsaw. He painted mainly historical scenes, among them several episodes from battles with the Teutonic Knights. In the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, for example, there is a painting Battle of Grunwald, also based on a text by Dlugosz and signed with an identical monogram F.S.
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