Bolesław ŁASZCZYŃSKI (1842-1909), "Painting palette with portrait of the artist's niece and self-portrait", 1902

oil, board (painting palette) attached to an oak plank, palette dimensions: 41 x 27 cm, board dimensions: 42.5 x 34 cm,
Signature and dedication p.d.: To her best friend / Beloved niece / in memory of r. 1902. / B. Łaszczyński; p.m. text in Italian: Disgrazia / Sull'Apennino (!) / via di Pistoja, below a quote from a Petraca song: Chiare, fresche e dolci acque, / con sospir mi rimembra / Petrarca canz.




Bolesław ŁASZCZYŃSKI (1842-1909)
Painter, associated with the Warsaw artistic community, a student at the Munich academy, where he was friends with Maksymilian Gierymski. In 1870 he traveled to Italy, where he spent several years, living in Florence, Rome and Sorrento, among other places. After returning to Poland around 1879, he settled in Warsaw. He took up genre themes, often alluding to well-known literary works, painted genre-historical compositions, Italian and native landscapes, engaged in church painting, portrait art, made polychrome paintings, including the painting decoration of the chancel of the Poznan Cathedral. The artist was a member of the Warsaw TZSP, exhibited at the Zachęta Gallery, the TPSP in Cracow and Lviv, and the Krywult Salon in Warsaw.