846 - Czesław Wasilewski, horse team in winter village, two-in-hand with coachman on village street, 1927

Czesław Wasilewski, horse team in winter village, two-in-hand with coachman on village street, 1927 (1875 Warsaw – 1947 Łódź), oil on hardboard, signed "Cz. Wasilewski" and dated 1927 lower right, wintry village street, in the foreground a two-horse carriage with two brown horses, on the box the coachman in brown coat with cap and whip, beside it two men in long coats in conversation, in the background a horse-drawn cart driving away before houses with snow-covered roofs and partly green shutters, muddy ground covered with snow, good condition commensurate with age, incipient craquelure in places, paint loss at the right edge, image 35x50.5 cm (HxW), framed, frame chipped, frame width 6 cm Czesław Wasilewski, also known under the name Ignacy Zygmuntowicz, was born in Warsaw in 1875 and died in Łódź in 1947. The largely self-taught painter worked in Warsaw and from the 1930s signed mostly with "I. Zygmuntowicz". His subjects include hunting scenes, winter sleigh rides, elks and wild boars in the forest, soldiers on patrol and Warsaw city views. Pictures such as "Dorożkarze" (cab drivers) show carts and their coachmen in the everyday life of Polish genre painting. Works by the painter are held by the National Museum in Warsaw and several regional museums.