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File:Fryderyk Chopin.jpg

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Summary

Artist Ambroży Mieroszewski
Title
English: Portrait of Frederic Chopin.
Polski: Portret Fryderyka Chopina.
Date 1829
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 29.8 × 22.2 cm (11.7 × 8.7 in)
Source/Photographer

"Catalogue of paintings removed from Poland by the German occupation authorities during the years 1939-1945. Polish paintings" / comp. Władysław Tomkiewicz ; Ministry of Culture and Art. Warsaw 1950 Editor: Ministry of Culture and Art.

See also Department of National Heritage, Wartime losses (an official webpage of Polish Ministry of Culture, Art and National Heritage)
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