Rare original lithography executed in 1819 by famous russian romantic painter and lithographer of polish origin Alexander ( Aleksandr Osipovich) Orlovsky ( Orlowski). Similar exemple of this lithograph we found in The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, see under link: http://www.abcgallery.com/O/orlovsky/orlovsky20.html The artist , born in 1777 in Warshaw , lived in in Poland as a youth where he studied under the french painter Norblen. He was involved in the polish patriotic movement and uprising of 1794. He worked in Poland untill his move to Russia in 1802.

He studied at the Academy in St.Petersburg and travelled to France, Germany and Italy. In 1812 russian Tzar Alexander III made him a court painter and thereafter he worked in St.Petersburg , producing paintings of shipwrecks, equestrian and military themes. He later painted street scenes , observing beggars and prisoners as well as elegant society . He was a prolific portrait draughtsman and caricaturist. He also produced theatrical designs . He died in St.Petersburg . Well represented in Tretjakov Gallery in Moscow, Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg , National Museums of Cracow, Warshaw and Berlin.

Inscription: signed in stone

Technique: original lithograph, old frame.

Measurements: light image w 21 3/4" x h 14 1/2" (55 x 37 cm); matted and framed w 29 1/3 x h 22 1/2" (74.5 x 57 cm)

Condition: in good condition due to the age .