Maurycy Gottlieb Gottlieb settled in Kraków and began working on his new major project. He died in the same year from health complications. Matejko attended his funeral and promised his father to look after his younger brother Marcin. Gottlieb won a gold medal at the Munich art competition for his painting, "Shylock and Jessica" (1876), portraying a scene from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice". The painting was exhibited in Lviv in 1877, and in 1878 at "Zachęta" in Warsaw and widely acclaimed. Gottlieb based Jessica's face on that of Laura Rosenfeld, to whom he had proposed marriage. However, Laura rejected his proposal
Charles Gilbert Tourret Charles Gilbert Tourret Charles Gilbert Tourret (22 December 1795 – 17 May 1858) was a French agronomist and politician who was Minister of Agriculture in 1848. He was instrumental in obtaining support for a new system of education of agricultural workers, farmers and proprietors. Charles-Gilbert Tourret was born in Montmarault, Allier, on 22 December 1795. He entered the "École Polytechnique" in 1814 and graduated as an engineer of roads and bridges. He began a career as a senior official, but then turned to the study and practice of agriculture in his native department. This became his lifetime passion, and he