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The painting "At the hundred-year-old spring in Szczawnica"

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A small watercolor by Antoni Kozakiewicz (1841-1929) depicting two women - highlanders, in traditional costumes: one in a kanafaska skirt and a light corset, the other in a dark navy blue skirt and a green corset. Both with scarves on their heads, both barefoot... They are standing with glasses by a rocky slope, on the bank of the Dunajec River.

A small watercolor by Antoni Kozakiewicz (1841-1929) depicting two women - highlanders, in traditional costumes: one in a kanafaska skirt and a light corset, the other in a dark navy blue skirt and a green corset. Both with scarves on their heads, both barefoot... They are standing with glasses by a rocky slope, on the bank of the Dunajec River. In the lower left corner there is an inscription: HE WILL SURVIVE A HUNDRED YEARS - WHO DRINKS THIS WATER!

In fact, these "hundred-year-old springs" or "wells" are a karst outcropping, the water flowing from which has a temperature of about 9⁰C and does not freeze even during severe frosts. It is located on the Pieniny Way - an attractive tourist trail on the banks of the Dunajec River, connecting the Polish Szczawnica and the Slovak Red Monastery (today the area where the spring flows belongs to the Republic of Slovakia). In the past, drinking water from this spring was one of the attractions of rafting down the Dunajec Gorge.

An interesting fact is a two-page letter from August 9, 1909, located next to the painting, addressed to Miachalina Janoszanka, painter and writer, author of, among others, memories about Jacek Malczewski "The Great Tercjarz". The letter and the painting were a gift to the lady from Antoni Kozakiewicz. The artist himself, a member of the January Uprising, took an active part in the life of the spa and lived in the "Akacja" villa in Szczawnica.

Anna Wawrzczak