{"product_id":"aleksander-gierymski-chlop-z-bronowic-lub-portret-chlopa-z-bronowic","title":"Aleksander Gierymski - Peasant from Bronowice","description":"\u003ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.7;\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd colspan=\"3\" style=\"padding-bottom: 16px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 6px;\"\u003ePeasant from Bronowice (or Portrait of a Peasant from Bronowice)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: #888; margin-bottom: 0px;\"\u003eAleksander Gierymski\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #888; margin-bottom: 16px;\"\u003e30 Sty 1850 – Marzec 1901\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-top: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.2); width: 100%;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 55%; vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 32px;\"\u003e“Peasant from Bronowice” is one of Aleksander Gierymski’s most magnetic and mature portrait studies. The work marks a clear departure from the idealising, sentimental peasant-mania common at the time, turning instead towards austere, profound realism and modern experiments with light. The artist gives up literary anecdote and picturesque genre staging. Instead, he focuses the viewer’s full attention on the monumental, static figure of a peasant from the Kraków region, creating a portrait filled with dignity, inner concentration and psychological truth that immediately holds the gaze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe painting’s colour palette delights with its freshness and its bold, almost Impressionist approach to natural light, which Gierymski had developed during his earlier stay in Paris. Traditional Kraków dress — a white sukmana coat and a colourful, patterned waistcoat — becomes, in the master’s hands, a pretext for a brilliant analysis of textures and refracted light. The bright, vibrating background and pure tones create an exceptionally luminous atmosphere, in which the artist’s investigative eye records details with almost photographic precision. The model’s face, furrowed with wrinkles and marked by the hardship of working the land, radiates authenticity, while the contrast between its severity and the rich colours of the costume gives the composition a unique, refined character.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis painting holds great importance in the history of art as an expression of the rejection of “poor ethnography” and the search for pure, formal excellence in Polish painting at the end of the 19th century. Gierymski proves that a rural subject can be shown in a modern, universal way, entirely free from patriotic or idyllic pathos. The peasant portrayed here is neither a symbol nor a decorative figure — he is a specific, proud human being whose presence on the canvas commands respect and prolonged contemplation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work was created around 1895, during Aleksander Gierymski’s stay in Bronowice near Kraków, where the artist was a guest in the home and studio of another outstanding painter, Włodzimierz Tetmajer — later the Host in Stanisław Wyspiański’s “The Wedding”. Interestingly, the painting entered the collection of the National Museum in Kraków as an official gift from Tetmajer himself, donated in 1902 in agreement with Stanisław Kuczborski. His close ties with the Bronowice bohemia allowed Gierymski, who suffered from deep neurasthenia, to find a brief moment of creative calm, which resulted in this exceptional series of studies from the Kraków area.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 1px; padding-top: 16px; padding-right: 32px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 1px; background: rgba(255,255,255,0.2); height: 100%; min-height: 120px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 45%; vertical-align: top; padding-top: 16px;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle: \u003c\/strong\u003ePeasant from Bronowice (or Portrait of a Peasant from Bronowice)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal title: \u003c\/strong\u003e Chłop z Bronowic (of Portret chłopa z Bronowic)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist: \u003c\/strong\u003eAleksander Gierymski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate: \u003c\/strong\u003e około 1895\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlace of origin: \u003c\/strong\u003eBronowice \/ Krakow, Poland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eType :\u003c\/strong\u003e Painting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTechnique: \u003c\/strong\u003eOil on canvas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre: \u003c\/strong\u003ePortrait \/ studium\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyle: \u003c\/strong\u003eRealism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForm: \u003c\/strong\u003ePainting\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giclee Art","offers":[{"title":"Black \/ S \/ Sosna","offer_id":57785743769948,"sku":null,"price":58.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ S \/ Oak","offer_id":57785743802716,"sku":null,"price":76.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ L \/ Sosna","offer_id":57785743835484,"sku":null,"price":89.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ L \/ Oak","offer_id":57785743868252,"sku":null,"price":115.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ XL \/ Sosna","offer_id":57785743901020,"sku":null,"price":128.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black \/ XL \/ Oak","offer_id":57785743933788,"sku":null,"price":179.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Light brown \/ S \/ Oak","offer_id":57785743966556,"sku":null,"price":76.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Light brown \/ L \/ Oak","offer_id":57785743999324,"sku":null,"price":115.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Light brown \/ XL \/ Oak","offer_id":57785744032092,"sku":null,"price":179.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Brown \/ S \/ Oak","offer_id":57785744064860,"sku":null,"price":76.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Brown \/ L \/ Oak","offer_id":57785744097628,"sku":null,"price":115.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Brown \/ XL \/ Oak","offer_id":57785744130396,"sku":null,"price":179.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Dark brown \/ S \/ Oak","offer_id":57785744163164,"sku":null,"price":76.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Dark brown \/ L \/ Oak","offer_id":57785744195932,"sku":null,"price":115.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Dark brown \/ XL \/ Oak","offer_id":57785744228700,"sku":null,"price":179.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/0517\/2828\/files\/Aleksander_Gierymski_-_Chlop_z_Bronowic_-_Full.jpg?v=1780422362","url":"https:\/\/gicleeart.eu\/en-eu\/products\/aleksander-gierymski-chlop-z-bronowic-lub-portret-chlopa-z-bronowic","provider":"Giclee Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}