Portraif of Maria Koźniewska-Kalinowska (1875–1968), painter

Portrait of Maria Koźniewska-Kalinowska (1875–1968), painter is a second portrait of the same sitter depicted in Boznańska's Q96035873 — an intriguing instance of the same woman being painted by two different artists in the same year. Koźniewska-Kalinowska was herself a painter, part of the interconnected Polish art world that centered on Kraków and Warsaw. The fact that she sat for both Boznańska and apparently Ciągliński or another artist speaks to her position within that world. This version is held at the National Museum in Warsaw.

The portrait is handled with the atmospheric softness characteristic of Polish Post-Impressionist portraiture. The sitter is rendered with careful attention to psychological character. Background dissolves into warm grey, consistent with the refined tonal approach of the period.