Genre painting ”Candlemas - Hutsuls on their way to the celebrations” by very important Polish painter of Armenian origin draftsman and printmaker  Teodor Axentowicz (1859 in Kronstadt, Transylvania, Austrian Empire - 1938 Kraków). 

From 1879 to 1882, Axentowicz studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and subsequently, from 1882 to 1895, under Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran in Paris. In 1894, he collaborated with Wojciech Kossak and Jan Styka on the realization of the Panorama of Racławice. Axentowicz moved to Kraków in 1895 and became a professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, serving as its rector from 1910 to 1934.

Literature: Stefania Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Franciszek Stolot: Historia malarstwa polskiego. Kluszczyński, Kraków 2000; Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1,  Vienna 1957, artist lexicons in German and Polish.

Inscription: signed lower left.

Technique: oil on cardboard. Gold-plated antique frame.

Measurements: unframed w 15 3/4" x h 19 1/4" (40 x 49 cm); framed w 21 1/8" x h 25" (53,7 x 63,7 cm).

Condition: in good condition.