Jan ROSEN (1854-1936), Bartek the winner

heliogravure (plate imprint visible), 25 x 19 cm, light passe-partout.
Print comes from a portfolio illustrating the works of Sienkiewicz published in 1898.
Under the composition is the signature of the artistic lithography workshop " Meisenbach Riffarth & Co".
Jan Rosen took drawing lessons as a child - in Dresden with H Redlich and in Warsaw with F Kostrzewski. He then studied in Munich - at the Academy and at J. Brandt's private studio - as well as in Paris with I. Pils and J. L. Gerome. He traveled extensively in Europe and lived in Munich, Paris and Lausanne. He painted mainly military paintings, battle scenes from the Napoleonic era and the November Uprising, as well as genre paintings with his favorite motif of horsemen and horses.
Georg Meisenbach was a German engraver and inventor of the autotype. In 1883 Meisenbach & Co. merged with Heinrich Riffarth & Co. to form Meisenbach Riffarth & Company, a well-known European printmaking firm....
Heliogravure (gr.helio + gravure) - a type of graphic intaglio printing technique, similar to aquatint, involving the photographic transfer of an image onto a metal plate (usually copper) and etching with light-sensitive emulsion so that the brightest areas create the shallowest recesses. Invented in 1879.Printing is done in a special hand press. Heliogravure, which was widespread in the 19th century, was later supplanted by rotogravure, as heliogravure is an expensive and very time-consuming method. Heliogravure is used only when it is necessary to create a small number of copies of very high quality.