Shrine with Pietà

A box-shaped wall shrine made of spruce boards, with a linden figure depicting a Pietà placed inside. The whole is covered with polychrome oil paint. The shrine comes from Chochołów, where it was hung on the front wall of a highlander’s cottage. Around 1930, it was acquired by Jan Sokołowski – a painter, famous Polish mountaineer of the interwar period, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1947 it was purchased from Sokołowski, for the collection of the Tatra Museum, by Juliusz Zborowski – the director of that institution. It is one of two sculptures that came to the collection of the Zakopane facility from Jan Sokołowski. He donated the second sculpture, depicting Christ Crucified (unfinished) and also coming from Chochołów, to the Tatra Museum in 1937. ID no.: E/4937/MT Museum: The Dr. Tytus Chałubiński Tatra Museum in Zakopane https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/1795 Digitalisation: Digitalisation: RDW MIC, Virtual Małopolska project