The first encounter of Bohdan Zenobi Chmielnicki and Jan Skrzetuski (introducing a new series: the images of Bohdan & Jan developing relationship, as a special gift for @wanderer-on-the-steppe)
From the series of illustrations for Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel "Ogniem i mieczem" ("With Fire and Sword"), the first part of the famous "Trylogia", by a Polish artist, Jan Marcin Szancer (1902-1973). The charcoal variant published in the edition from 1954.
It is a fan account existing only for H. Sienkiewicz's "Trilogy" and the Polish & Ukrainian culture glory. I don’t benefit from it.
Another image of the same epizode:
The first encounter of Bohdan Zenobi Chmielnicki and Jan Skrzetuski.
A gouache by Beata Sajewska, very talented contemporary Polish artist