Girl in Peasant Dress (recto); Sheet of Sketches: Women and Girls (verso)
Medium
Graphite (recto and verso) on cream wove paper
Dimensions
29 × 16.9 cm (11 7/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113839
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Karel Vitezslav Masek · 1865–1927
Karel Vítězslav Mašek (1865–1927) was a versatile Czech painter, architect, illustrator, and art professor whose career bridged academic traditions with emerging modernist tendencies in fin-de-siècle Europe. Born in Prague on September 1, 1865, he began his formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Antonín Lhota before transferring in 1884 to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. T...