Who painted “Cranes”?

“Cranes” was painted by Józef Chełmoński in 1870. Where to see it: National Museum in Kraków.

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Józef Chełmoński: Polish rural life, horses and wide plains, often at dawn or dusk with soft, atmospheric light.

Józef Marian Chełmoński (7 November 1849 – 6 April 1914) was a Polish painter, known for his realistic paintings of landscapes, rural scenes and genre scenes presenting historical and social contexts of the late Romantic period in partitioned Poland. Wikipedia

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More by Józef Chełmoński

“Gossamer”, 1875
“Storks”, 1900
“Four-in-Hand”, 1881
“Summer Evening”, 1875
“Partridges”, 1891
“The Water Hen”, 1894
“Ploughing”, 1896
“An Idyll”, 1885