Dimensions: 24.4 x 36.3 cm
Signed and dated above: 'JÓZEF CHEŁMOŃSKI 1891'.
The painting is a study for the lost composition "Flooded Meadow" (1891, former collection of Kazimierz Natanson (1853-1935), Warsaw).
State of preservation
compiled by Tadeusz Matuszczak on January 22, 2011
Origin
legacy of the artist
collection of Maria Chełmońska-Łoskowska (1881-1950), daughter of the artist and her heirs
private collection, Warsaw
Space Gallery Salon of Old and Contemporary Art, Cracow, December 2010
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
Exhibition of works by Jozef Chelmonski 1849-1914. works from the collection of Marja née Chelmonska Loskowska and Dr. Jozef Gutowski, Hall of the Rev. Jozef Poniatowski Male Gymnasium, Lowicz, June 11-14, 1936
Literature
Jozef Chelmonski in private collections. On the 90th anniversary of the painter's death, exhibition catalog, ed. Tadeusz Matuszczak, Dom Pracy Twórczej w Radziejowicach, Radziejowice 2004, p. 29 (il.)
Tadeusz Matuszczak, Józef Chełmoński, Cracow 2003, p. 87 (il.)
Tadeusz Matuszczak, Authenticity and talent, "Inspirations" 1999, no. 7, p. 39 (ill.)
Tadeusz Matuszczak, Józef Chełmoński, Kraków 1996, p. 58 (ill.)
Józef Chełmoński 1849-1914, exhibition catalog, vol. 1, National Museum in Poznań, Poznań 1987, p. 93, cat. no. 100, il. 84
Catalog of the exhibition of works by Jozef Chelmonski. Works from the collection of Marja née Chelmonska Loskowska and Dr. Jozef Gutowski, Łowicz 1936, item 4 (as "Meadow Lagoon")
Biography
In 1867-71 he studied painting at the Drawing Class and at the private studio of Wojciech Gerson in Warsaw. In 1871-74 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was associated with the Polish artistic colony centered around Jozef Brandt and Maksymilian Gierymski. A formative moment for Chelmonski's work was his travels to Podolia and Ukraine (1872 and 1874-75). Until 1887 he lived in Paris, where his paintings were very popular. He then returned to Poland, settling in Kuklówka near Grodzisk Mazowiecki. He was one of the most outstanding Polish landscape painters of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted realistic and atmospheric in character landscapes and genre scenes inspired by Mazovian or borderland nature. Chelmonski's paintings are in the most important public collections in Poland, as well as European and American private collections.
