Jan STANISŁAWSKI (1860-1907), Landscape from Podolia [Podolia Landscape], ca. 1905

Oil, canvas; 24.5 x 38.4 cm.
On the reverse:
- on the canvas at the top a poorly legible, handwritten secondary inscription, in pencil - partly under the loom strip - mal. Jan Stanislawski (?) / in memory of ...; on the upper slat of the loom handwritten in red crayon the number 1 (collector's mark?);
- on paper covering the back of the painting, at the bottom right sticker of an exhibition (partially damaged) from an exhibition at the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Krakow with a description of the work and a stamp: Exhibition on the 50th anniversary of Jan Stanislawski's death, 1957;
- on the loom strip on the right, at the bottom a deposit sticker (?) of the National Museum in Warsaw with the number p879/00/12;
- inscriptions on paper covering the back of the painting, handwritten in pencil, at the bottom 1898-1900, on the right 1905?
Exhibited:
- Jan Stanislawski and His School. Exhibition on the fiftieth anniversary of the artist's death, Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow, March-April 1957;
Literature of the Image:
- Posthumous Exhibition of Jan Stanislawski, [exhibition catalog], Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Lviv, Lviv (May) 1933, cat. no. 70 - here as "Landscape of Podolia - oil), from the Orzechowicz collection (no dimensions, illustrations given) - probably identical to the painting under review;
- Jan Stanislawski and His School. Exhibition on the fiftieth anniversary of the artist's death. Exhibition Catalogue, National Museum in Cracow and Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow, March-April 1957, Cracow 1957 - p. 23, cat. no. 121 - here dimensions 24 x 38 cm - painting placed in a group of works created in 1905.

Attached to the painting is a 9-page confirmation of authenticity issued by the Art-Consultant Agency of Adam Konopacki.