Jezuicka Street in Lublin

The Lublin portfolio is one of the mature graphic works of Leon Wyczółkowski (1852-1936), who devoted over thirty years of his artistic activity to graphic art, abandoning oil painting on its behalf. The Lublin portfolio is one of the most beautiful graphic portraits of the city, which the artist supplemented with three boards unrelated to urban architecture. Composed of seventeen auto-lithographic sheets, the portfolio was published a year later in Krakow in twenty copies. After printing the edition planned by the artist, the lithographic stones were destroyed, which in Wyczółkowski's case was a frequent practice and gave his prints a unique character.
In Board 3, which shows Jezuicka Street viewed from a perspective, the artist differentiated the plans by contrasting them with the intensity of a lithographic crayon. The artist emphasized the architectural details of tenement houses framed in close-up, cut with a narrow frame by contours and intensified chiaroscuro, as well as the dome of the cathedral tower visible in the distance.