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Who painted “Gossamer”?

“Gossamer” was painted by Józef Chełmoński in 1875. Where to see it: National Museum in Warsaw.

Gossamer — Józef Chełmoński

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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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