Leon Wyczółkowski, Golden Graduation of the Master's Grandparents

One of Wyczółkowski's earliest works, created in 1870, the artist used watercolour, pencil and tempera to create it on paper. Against a background of a red curtain, two landscapes are shown in a stylised frame. It is probably of Rososz, where his grandparents had a manor house. Leon lived there with his family as a child. Above, a ribbon with the inscription ON THE DAY OF THE GOLDEN wedding 1870 and a nuptial scene. In the upper part portraits of the grandparents in two oval frames. The whole is crowned by a dove with a star. In the lower right-hand corner, the artist has placed his eighteen-year-old self. The work is a laurel intended for his grandparents on his mother's side, Kunegunda and Jan Falinski, on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary. They took care of Leon after the death of his parents.