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The upper part of the wardrobe, designed and painted by Vlaho Bukovac, has two wings. On the left side, there is a narrower section with open shelves supported at the front by a pillar with a simple decoration of two fluted horizontal lines at the top. The doors, similar to the commode KB-710, are adorned with the same radiating decoration and painting depicting iris flowers. Above, there is a galvanized sheet metal frieze adorned with horizontally and vertically arranged laurel leaf motifs made of sheet metal. They are separated by a narrow line and small laurel berries. The wardrobe is a dark green colour. 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. In the Portrait of My Wife in a Red Dress (KB-969), kept at the Bukovac House, he portrayed his wife Jelica leaning against this wardrobe.
However, the painting titled Cabinet of Future Glory, unfortunately lost today, painted in Prague in 1906, is interesting for several reasons. In this painting, the wardrobe is not just incidental scenery. Bukovac paints a partially open upper part, and within and around it, he places the severed heads of his Prague students, as well as his own, creating a very bizarre group portrait. The painting was exhibited in Sofia in 1906, bought by the Bulgarian Prince Ferdinand, and since then, its whereabouts has remained unknown.
