47 x 65 cm (in light of passe-partout)
Signed p.d.: K Stabrowski.
Provenance:
The painting comes from the collection of the family of the artist's wife, Julia Stabrowska née Janiszewska. In 1997 it was shown at an exhibition of a collection of Kazimierz Stabrowski's works from private collections and the National Museum in Warsaw held at the Stara Kordegarda in the Royal Lazienki Park in Warsaw.
Listed in the exhibition catalog:
- Guide No. 288 to the exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts [...] Collective exhibition of works by Kazimierz Stabrowski [...], TZSP Warsaw 1928, p. 5, cat. no. 25;
- Kazimierz Stabrowski 1869-1929. collection of works from private collections and the National Museum in Warsaw. [L.Skalska-Miecik with the collaboration of K.Jerzmanowska], Royal Łazienki Museum Stara Kordegarda, Warsaw 1997, cat. no. 31.
Kazimierz Stabrowski (Kruplany near Novogrudok 1869 - Garwolin 1929) - painter, draughtsman, educator; from 1887 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. During his studies he received medals and decorations several times. In 1893 he traveled to Palestine in connection with, painted for his diploma, a painting of Muhammad in the desert, for which he later received a great gold medal. Despite his graduation, from 1895 he still trained in the studio of I.J.Riepin. In 1897 he went to Paris and attended the Académie Julian there, working under B.Constants and J.P.Laurens. In 1898 he returned to St. Petersburg. In 1900, at the Universal Exhibition in Paris, he received a great silver medal for his painting Silence in the Countryside. He also participated in other international exhibitions, including Munich (1901), Venice (1903). Since 1902 he was a member of the Association of Polish Artists Art. In 1903 he moved to Warsaw, where in 1904 he became the first director of the School of Fine Arts, being one of the initiators of its establishment. In 1909-1913 he traveled a lot - he was in France, Ni
