Painted commode – lower part of the wardrobe

The commode is the lower part of the wardrobe designed and painted by Vlaho Bukovac. The slightly recessed central part of the door features a radiating, fan-shaped ornament made of wooden slats, pointed at the top, emanating from a quarter circle in the lower right corner. Bukovac painted the upper part of the panel with a floral motif. The commode features simple lines and is painted in a dark green colour.

The wardrobe was designed for the studio located in the yard of the newly built Bukovac house at Zrinjevac in Zagreb. It is a frequent motif in Bukovac’s paintings from his Zagreb and Prague periods.

It is also depicted in Vlaho Bukovac’s painting Hope from 1910.