28x16cm clear passe-partout,woodcut,paper,signed on the board with monoram tied p.d. JM and date.1866 and by xylographer l.d.J.Styfi
Graphic comes from "Album of Jan Matejko" published in 1876 by S.Lewental. The drawings on woodcut plates were personally made by Jan Matejko, engraved by the most outstanding wood engravers of the time.
Jan Styfi (born in January 1841 in Warsaw, died March 5, 1921 there) - Warsaw wood engraver, one of the most distinguished Polish xylographers, creator and organizer of wood engraving workshops in Warsaw, educator. Styfi was one of the most prominent and prolific Polish xylographers; he was particularly noted for his woodcut reproductions of paintings and drawings by other authors, including Józef Chelmonski, Wojciech Gerson, Aleksander Gierymski, Aleksander Gryglewski, Juliusz Kossak, Franciszek Kostrzewski, Jan Matejko and Henryk Pillati. Styfi's woodcuts usually depicted views and architecture of cities, as well as genre shots of peasants.Of Styfi's more important works: Union of Lublin, Stefan Batory at Pskov, Death Sentence, Stańczyk, Magistrate Alchemist and Nicolaus Copernicus - by Jan Matejko, Winter in the Steppe - by Chelmonski, Stańczyk writing down doctors - by Valery Elias, Chapel in Ossolin - by Fabianski, King Sigismund Augustus the Widower - Gerson, Bison Fight, Horse Market in Praga and Zapustny Bell - Juliusz Kossak, Rural Wedding from the Warsaw Area and Zadymka - Franciszek Kostrzewski, Fan Lottery in the Saxon Garden, Military Bivouac and Sobótka - Pillati.
