Dimensions: 74 x 91 cm
Variant of title: Two children of Władysław Michałowski, brother of the artist
on the painting loom a paper exhibition sticker of the Society of Friends of Fine Arts in Cracow, two fragmentarily preserved paper stickers, a sticker with the number: 'III' and an ownership stamp
Origins
Roman Michałowski, nephew of the artist, Dobrzechów
Henryk Dembinski, Cracow
Roman Michałowski, United States
Michałowski family, New Jersey, United States
collection of Wojciech Fibak (purchased in 1990)
Exhibited
Piotr Michałowski 1800-1855. exhibition of the artist's works on the bicentennial of his birth, National Museum in Cracow, 2000
Polish Paris, École de Paris. Wojciech Fibak Collection. Exhibition of paintings by Polish and Polish-Jewish artists of the 19th and 20th centuries associated with Paris - from Piotr Michałowski to Jan Lebenstein, National Museum in Szczecin, December 1999 - March 2000
Polish Paris. From Michałowski to Lebenstein. Polish Paintings from the Collection of Wojciech Fibak, Historical Museum in Wroclaw, October 30-December 31, 1998 (exhibition subsequently exhibited at the Museum of the History of the City of Lodz).
Polish Paintings from the Collection of Ewa and Wojciech Fibak, National Museum in Warsaw, May 23 - August 9, 1992, National Museum in Poznan August 22 - October 25, 1992 (exhibition subsequently exhibited at the National Museum in Krakow)
Polish Paintings. A Loan Exhibition, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, New York, United States, 1957.
Group exhibition of works by Piotr Michałowski 1800-1855, Institute of Art Propaganda, Warsaw, May 1934
Child in Art, Society of Fine Arts, Cracow, April 1917
Literature
Piotr Michałowski 1800-1855. exhibition of the artist's works on the bicentennial of his birth, exhibition catalog, ed. Anna Zeńczak, National Museum in Cracow, Cracow 2000, cat. no. 11, p. 76 (il.)
Polish Paris, École de Paris. Collection of Wojciech Fibak / Exhibition of paintings by Polish and Polish-Jewish artists of the 19th and 20th centuries associated with Paris - from Piotr Michałowski to Jan Lebenstein, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Szczecin, Szczecin 1999, p. 36 (ill.)
Polish Paris. From Michałowski to Lebenstein. Polish Painting from the Collection of Wojciech Fibak, Museum of the History of the City of Lodz, Lodz 1998, il. on endpapers (p. nlb.)
Polish Paris. From Michałowski to Lebenstein. Polish Painting from the Collection of Wojciech Fibak, Wrocław Historical Museum, Wrocław 1998, il. on endpapers (p. nlb.)
Jan K. Ostrowski, Michałowski Piotr, in: Słownik artystów polskich i obcych w Polsce działających (zmarłych przed 1966 r.). Malarze, rzeźbiarze, graficy, ed. Janusz Derwojed, Warsaw 1993, vol. V, p. 519 (mentioned paintings from the collection of Wojciech Fibak)
Polish Painting from the Collection of Ewa and Wojciech Fibak, exhibition catalog, National Museum in Warsaw, National Museum in Poznan, Warsaw 1992, p. 12 (ill.).
Aleksandra Melbechowska, Two exhibitions, "Bulletin of Art History" 1960, r. III, p. 318, il. 4
Mieczysław Sterling, Collective exhibition of works by Piotr Michałowski 1800-1855, Institute of Art Propaganda, Warsaw 1934, cat. no. 148
Mieczyslaw Sterling, Piotr Michałowski, Warsaw 1932, pp. 52, 83
Child in Art. Catalog of the exhibition at the Society of Fine Arts in Cracow, Cracow 1917, cat. no. 48
Jerzy Mycielski, One Hundred Years of the History of Painting in Poland 1760-1860. From the Occasions of the Retrospective Exhibition of Polish Painting in Lvov, Krakow 1897, p. 378
Biography
From 1815 to 1820 he studied at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and in Göttingen (1821 - 1823). He studied drawing privately in Cracow with, among others, M. Stachowicz, J. Brodowski and F. Lampi. From 1832 to 1835 he was in Paris, where he studied in the studio of N. T. Charlet and studied in the Louvre the works of Spanish, Dutch and Flemish painters. In 1835 he was in England, then returned to Krakow, where he was president of the Administrative Council from 1848 to 1853. Until 1832, during a period of amateur art, he made drawings and watercolors mainly under the influence of A. Orlovsky and C. J. Vernet. He drew and painted horses, harnesses, stagecoaches and domestic cattle. Battle scenes from the Napoleonic wars and the November Uprising were also the subject of his paintings; he painted equestrian portraits of chiefs and hetmans, portraits of family and friends and, as the first of Polish artists, portraits of peasants and Jews.
