Lithograph, paper 23 x 17 cm in light passe - partout, signed on the plate l.d.
Lithograph made in 1881 at Aureliusz Pruszyński's Artistic Lithography Workshop in Cracow and published by the Artistic and Literary Circle in Cracow.
Ludomir Benedyktowicz (5.08.1844 Swiniary near Siedlce - 14.12.1926 Lviv) painter, critic and poet, January Uprising insurgent. He studied at the Forestry Institute in Brok, then took part in the January Uprising which left him permanently disabled. He began his artistic studies by studying painting with Wojciech Gerson, then at the Drawing Class in Warsaw, then studied at the Munich academy from 1868 to 1872, complementing his studies with Jan Matejko at the School of Fine Arts (SSP) in Cracow. He practiced oil painting, also gouache and watercolor, and various drawing techniques. The subjects of his works were landscape, also portrait and genre scenes; see SAP vol. 1 pp. 131-132.
Aureliusz Pruszyński (9.09.1847 Kasinka Mała pov. Limanowa - 22.04.1904 Kraków) - Kraków lithographer, owner of the highly regarded Aureliusz Pruszyński Artistic Lithography Workshop in Kraków established in 1873 at 17 Pijarska Street, from ca 1902 the owner of the workshop was his son Zenon Pruszyński (see SAP vol. 8 pp. 92-93). In the factory of A. Pruszyński, from the end of the 19th century, leading artists of Cracow reflected their graphic works in lithography (including posters), including the famous "Teka Melpomena"
