Watercolor, paper; 9.5 x 12.5 cm
Signed medr. d,: J/ Szermetowski / 1854
On the reverse by another author: Portrait of a nobleman, in pencil, signed p.d.: 1854 r / 20/7; l.d.: K. H.P / 1851; d: Sobek mi pa; at top, dedication in pen: (...) passes past / With the hope of happiness (...) / May your dream descend. / Such a friendly wish on May 30, 855 / from B.W.M.
This is most likely a card from the album.
Jozef SZERMENTOWSKI
1833 Bodzentyn - 1876 Paris
Painter and watercolorist - was one of the most prominent Polish landscape painters of the mid-19th century. He took his first painting lessons with Franciszek Kostrzewski, and further studies at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts with the landscape painter Christian Breslauer and privately with Juliusz Kossak. In 1860 he received a scholarship to go to Paris, where he settled permanently and from where he came to the country twice more. In his early work he referred to the style of Kostrzewski's painting, while in Paris his art matured under the influence of artists from the Barbizon landscape school. The subjects of his paintings were Polish motifs - landscapes from the area of Kielce, Sandomierz or Cracow, recreated from memory and based on photographs, into which he often introduced genre scenes. The artist, who attached great importance to luministic studies, was a co-founder of the modern landscape direction in Polish painting.
Asking price 2500
Estimate 5000 - 7000
