Duro Jelacic Buzimski (Zagreb, 1805 - Novi Dvori, 1901)


Zagreb painted by Mihael Stroy 1832 Oil on canvas 79 x 63,7 cm On a greyish-green background the bust of a young man, with his body turned to the front and his head half to the left. His hair is black and eyes brown; he is wearing a white shirt with a wide collar with pointed ends and a white tie with a small gold pin. He is wrapped in a brown cloak with red lining. The signature in the bottom left hand corner reads: 'Stroy pinx. 1832.' Like his brother Josip, Duro Jelacic Buzimski had decided upon a military career. Because of a patriotic speech he had given in the Croatian Parliament in 1861, he was pensioned and lived from that time on at the Novi Dvori estate near Zapresic. Mihael Stroy (Ljubno, 1803 - Ljubljana, 1871), a Slovene portrait painter, had lived in Zagreb from 1830 to 1840. During that period he painted a whole range of excellent portraits. The museum collection holds five other signed and several unsigned portraits by Stroy. The portrait of Duro Jelacic is one of his masterpieces painted at the beginning of his stay in Zagreb. The painting was bequeathed to the Museum in 1937 in Countess Anka Jelacic's will. M. Schneider, Portreti 1800-1870, Zagreb, 1973, page 74, catalogue number 83; Hrvatski narodni preporod 1790-1848, (exhibition catalogue), Zagreb, 1985, page 228, catalogue number 951; G. Gamulin, Slikarstvo u Hrvatskoj u XIX. stoljecu, Zagreb, 1996.




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