Dimensions: 51.5 x 63.2 cm
title variant: The baying stallion
On the reverse, hardly legible triangular stamp, circular customs stamp twice repeated on the painting loom, paper inventory sticker, fragmentarily preserved sticker with the number: '3(?)', paper sticker with the description of the painting, number: '28' and ownership stamp
Origins
Ignacy Korwin-Milewski, Vienna
Emil Merwin, Vienna
Czeslaw Bednarczyk, Vienna
Collection of Wojciech Fibak (purchased in 1979)
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, Museum of the History of the City of Lodz, 1999.
Polish Paris. From Michałowski to Lebenstein. Polish Painting from the Collection of Wojciech Fibak, State Art Gallery in Sopot, July 8 - October 4, 1998.
Polish Painting 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 Cracow).
Bedeutende Gemälde polnischer Meister, Kunst und Antiquitaten Czeslaw Bednarczyk, Vienna 1969
Ausstellung Piotr Michałowski, Galerie Würthle, Vienna, 1934
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. 137, p. 187 (ill.)
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. 30 (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 1999, p. 23 (ill.)
Polish Paris. From Michałowski to Lebenstein. Polish Painting from the Collection of Wojciech Fibak, State Art Gallery in Sopot, Sopot 1998, p. 23 (ill.)
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. 8 (ill.).
Jerzy Sienkiewicz, Bedeutende Gemälde polnischer Meister. Ausstellungskatalog, Kunst und Antiquitaten Czeslaw Bednarczyk, Wien 1969, cat. no. 8, p. 29 (il.)
Katalog zur Ausstellung Piotr Michałowski, Galerie Würthle, Wien 1934, cat. no. 12.
Biography
Studied at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and in Göttingen (1821 - 1823) from 1815 to 1820. 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.
