Portrait of Adam Chmiel

The Krakow holdings include two portraits of Chmiel, the earlier one from 1899, until today believed to be a portrait of an unknown man, and the one drawn in the evening of 29 November 1904. In the work of 1904, purchased for the Museum from Wanda Chmielowa, Wyspiański depicted his friend – an archivist, connoisseur and lover of Krakow – at his place, in the aura of his blue studio. He portrayed him in bust length, lost in thought, turned to the light illuminating his figure with a yellow stream and the studio plunged into darkness of dusk.