Dimensions: 76.5 x 54.5 cm
Signed, dated, and inscribed in the lower left corner: 'J. Strzałecki 1887 Roma'
Provenance
DESA Unicum, March 1996
private collection, Poland
Biography
Brother of Wandalin and Antoni Jan, who were also painters. He exhibited at the Zachęta in Warsaw from 1865 to 1898, primarily religious paintings and sketches of historic architecture; he was the designer (?) the ceiling for the Grand Theater and a series of illustrations for Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy. He contributed to the magazines *Tygodnik Ilustrowany* and *Życie i Sztuka*. Works by this artist are extremely rare on the antique art market.
