Dimensions: 73 x 132 cm
signed, dated and inscribed p.d.: 'ANTONI PIOTROWSKI 1881 Paris'
other historical title: Un blessé: Pologne (1863)
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, before 1993
private collection, London
Exhibited
Salon, Paris, 1881
Literature
Hans Peter Bühler, Jozef Brandt, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski and others. Polish Munich School, translated by Tomasz Kozłowski, Warsaw 1998, pp. 46, 155, no. il. 44
Catalogue illustré du Salon : peinture et sculpture, Paris 1881, p. XXXVIII, cat. no. 1883
The auctioned price and the auction fee of 20% of the auctioned price are net amounts. German value added tax at 7% will be added to the auction price and the auction fee.
Biography
From 1869 he studied at the Warsaw Drawing Class under Wojciech Gerson. From 1875 to 1877 he studied at the Munich Academy, and from 1877 to 1879 he was a student of Jan Matejko at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow. From 1885 to 1887 he traveled to Bulgaria as a correspondent-illustrator for English and French magazines documenting the Bulgarian-Serbian War. While in Bulgaria, he painted a series of paintings for the National Gallery in Sofia and made a career as a portraitist of the aristocracy. In 1897 and 1903 he traveled to the Middle East, from where he sent correspondence and drawings from the Greco-Turkish War. He painted mainly genre scenes, often of Mazovian village life. He also painted historical paintings, episodes from the January Uprising and portraits. He participated in the painting of the Berezina panorama.
