Dimensions: 198 x 143 cm
Signed and dated p.d.: 'Z. Sokolowski. | 1884.'
on the painting loom a paper conservationist's sticker
State of conservation
attached to the painting is a documentation of conservation and restoration work by Piotr Dybalski dated 2023
Provenance
private collection, Poznan
Exhibited
Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych (Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts), Warsaw, 1884
Society of the Friends of Fine Arts, Cracow, 1884
Literature
compare Halina Blak, Barbara Małkiewicz, Elżbieta Wojtałowa, Malarstwo polskie XIX wieku, catalog of collections, ed. Zofia Gołubiew, National Museum in Cracow, Cracow 2001, p. 323 (ill.), cat. no. 900 (Dawid grający na harfie, 1884, National Museum in Cracow, inv. no. MNK II-a-273 (12 114))
Janina Wiercińska, Catalogue of works exhibited at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the years 1860-1914, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1969, p. 341
Emmanuel Świeykowski, Memoir of the Society of Friends of the Fine Arts in Cracow 1854-1904, Cracow 1905, p. 145 (mentioned in the list of works)
Report of the Directorate of the Society for the Friends of the Fine Arts in Cracow on its activities for the year 1884, Cracow 1885, R. XXX, p. 11, cat. no. 220