Dimensions: 50 x 109 cm
signed, dated and inscribed l.d.: 'JÓZEF CHEŁMOŃSKI | à paris 1881'
other historical titles: Halt at a Russian Inn; The Halt at the Inn, Russia; Rest of the insurgents in front of the Inn; Polish Tavern; Polish Inn in Winter; Winter; Insurgents in front of the Inn; Scene from the Uprising
On the reverse on the loom, description of the work: 'JÓZEF CHEŁMOŃSKI | 'DEVANT LE CABARET' - 'BEFORE THE HOUSE' | PARIS 1881' and ownership description.
Origins
Barker Art Gallery, New York, 1882
Noyes & Blakeslee's Galleries, Boston, 1883
Barker Art Gallery II, New York, 1883
Ortgies Galleries, New York, 1883
Madison Square Art Rooms, New York, 1884
Stanley Wattenberg Art Gallery, Long Branch, ca. 1965
collection of Stanislaw Stańczyk, London
private collection, London, since 1975
Literature
Józef Chełmoński 1849-1914, exhibition catalog, volume 2, ed. by Ewa Micke-Broniarek, Wojciech Głowacki, Warsaw 2024, p. 139 (ill.), cat. no. 101
Aleksandra Gołębiowska-Pilorz, Wioletta Pilorz, From nature and for nature: thing about Józef Chełmoński, Żyrardów 2013, p. 43
Tadeusz Matuszczak, Józef Chełmoński - "Standing of the Line Cossacks": the first public showing of the painting since 1882, Radziejowice 2011, p. 22 (il.) and 23
Polish painters in Munich: materials from a scientific session, edited by Zbigniew Faltynowicz, Eliza Ptaszyńska, Suwałki 2007, p. 99
Tadeusz Matuszczak, Józef Chełmoński, Cracow 2003, p. 61 (ill.)
Hans Peter Bühler, Jozef Brandt, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski and others. Polish Munich School, translated by Tomasz Kozlowski, Warsaw 1998, p. 44, 155, no. il. 40
Hans Peter Bühler, Jäger, Kosaken und polnische Reiter: Josef von Brandt, Alfred von Wierusz-Kowalski und Franz Roubaud und der Münchner Polenkreis, Hildesheim 1993, pp. 48, 163, no. il. 40
Letter from Maciej Maslowski to Stanislaw Galazka, December 28, 1965, Maslowski Archive, Institute of Art, National Academy of Sciences, Special Collections, inv. no. 2201 (mentioned as "Scene from the Uprising")
The auctioned price and the auction fee of 20% of the auctioned price are net amounts. German value added tax at 7% will be added to the auction price and auction fee.
Biography
In 1867-71 he studied painting at the Drawing Class and at the private studio of Wojciech Gerson in Warsaw. In 1871-74 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was associated with the Polish artistic colony centered around Jozef Brandt and Maksymilian Gierymski. A formative moment for Chelmonski's work was his travels to Podolia and Ukraine (1872 and 1874-75). Until 1887 he lived in Paris, where his paintings were very popular. He then returned to Poland, settling in Kuklówka near Grodzisk Mazowiecki. He was one of the most outstanding Polish landscape painters of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted realistic and atmospheric in character landscapes and genre scenes inspired by Mazovian or borderland nature. Chelmonski's paintings are in the most important public collections in Poland, as well as European and American private collections.
