Watercolor, paper, 19 x 28.5 cm (in light of passe-partout)
Signature p.d.: Juliusz Kossak | 1892
On the back handwritten inscription (in ink): "I affirm the authenticity | of the work of my father J. Kossak | Wojciech Kossak"and a sticker with a ruling by Leszek Ludwikowski, M.A .(Krakow, March 21, 1974) confirming the authorship of Juliusz Kossak.
Compare with:
- K.Olszanski, Juliusz Kossak, Wroclaw 1988, p. 122, cat. no. 387, repr. 387 (composition dated 1876).
Juliusz Kossak (Wiśnicz 1824 - Kraków 1899) - painter and illustrator - was one of the most popular Polish artists of the 2nd half of the 19th century. He began his drawing and painting lessons in Jan Maszkowski's studio in Lviv; later he drew a lot from nature while visiting noble estates in Ukraine, Podolia and Volhynia. In 1852 he was in Vienna, Hungary and St. Petersburg, before settling permanently in Warsaw. He spent the years 1856-1860 in Paris, where he was friends with Horace Vernet. Returning to Warsaw in 1862-1868, he was artistic director of the "Illustrated Weekly". In 1869, he moved permanently to Krakow, from where he would make further trips to Munich to paint in the atelier of the batalist Franz Adam. Kossak was primarily an accomplished watercolorist; he used oil techniques less frequently. He painted historical and battle paintings, genre scenes illustrating the life and traditions of the noble court and the customs of the Polish people. But the real heroes of his paintings were horses, whose movement, temperament, character and individuality he was able to masterfully depict. He was also the author of many illustrations for magazines and books, perfectly hitting both the atmosphere of literary works and the longings and needs of the audience - readers of Wincenty Pol's Song of Our Land, Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trilogy , Pan Tadeusz and Adam Mickiewicz's poems.
