Oil on canvas, signed lower left "Cz. Wasilewski"
Dimensions with frame: 49x63 cm (35x50 cm)
Czesław Wasilewski (1875–1947), who likely used the pseudonyms Zygmuntowicz, Baranowski, and Wysocki; a Warsaw painter popular during the interwar period, creator of genre paintings inspired by the works of Kossak, Brandt, Chełmoński, Wierusz-Kowalski, and Fałat. He was self-taught; although he enrolled in the Warsaw School of Fine Arts in 1911, nothing more specific is known about his studies there. He may have attended (1913–1917) the studio of Wojciech Kossak, for whom he later, in the early 1920s, prepared underpaintings for paintings. He participated in an exhibition in Lublin (1922) and exhibited at the Salons of Warsaw’s Zachęta (1925, 1926, 1927), in Katowice (1926), Częstochowa (1927), Gdynia (1929), Kalisz (1931), and Poznań (1928, 1931). He primarily painted numerous horse-drawn carriages, sleighs, hunting trips, travel accidents, lancers on patrol, and moose and wild boars in the forest. He painted flowers and still lifes less frequently.
