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National Museum of Warsaw has a collection of paintings by maestro Juliusz Kossak, some of these have been made accessible to the internet audience via the digitization project.
One of them is a medium size, 87,5cm x 76cm, oil on canvas work titled 'Amazonka (Amazon)'[ in black on grey Arabian horse] - painted in 1868AD.
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The painting depicts a lady riding side-saddle on a beautiful grey Arabian in a park-like environment, perhaps in one of the Potocki family estates.
The treatment of the Arabian and two other horses in the background shows the mastery of equestrian subjects by the painter. The unusual technique, i.e., oils, since Kossak already had been painting in watercolors, still show his mastery of the medium.
During the late 1860s Juliusz Kossak, residing in Warsaw (Russian Empire) participated in many exhibits in Krakow, Paris, Munich and Dresden.
This painting was completed around the late summer of 1868, when our artists was exhibiting his new works in Dresden, Saxony.
Nota bene during the following year, 1869, Juliusz Kossak moved his atelier and family from Warsaw to Krakow, Austro-Hungarian Empire. Their Krakow property, a house with a garden, would become their family seat for the next century.
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