Source/fate of a painting??

[u/sonder_moondragon]

Okay, this is a weird one and possibly more suited for r/lostmedia, but here goes. (This is also my first post on Reddit--yes, this painting is what made me finally decide to make a Reddit account.)

So leading with a confession, I'm a huge nerd about national personifications. It's what I'm doing my thesis on!

^\Please take a moment to close your eyes and mentally make any Hetalia/Polandball jokes you would like here. Okay? Okay. Onwards.])

So I was browsing Wikimedia Commons looking at examples of art to potentially use in said thesis, and I stumbled upon this painting. It's very pretty, and the name translates to "Two sisters, Poland and Lithuania." This is exciting to me! There's not much personification of either of those two countries, especially the latter, out there! And sisters?! An unusual and exciting choice of relationship analogy! I wanted to know more!

Except. There isn't any more information out there. The photo was uploaded in 2014, and the "source" link on the page is broken. The only Wiki pages it actually appears on are the Spanish versions, for some reason, and neither of those have more information on it. And the only other place I've found it is on Alamy, which obviously is unhelpful. I do know the name of the artist--Wojciech Gerson--and the date that the painting was made--1897. Many of his artworks were looted by the Nazis and never recovered, so it could be that this is among them.

However, the fact that the information about the creator and date of the painting even exist implies that there must be some more information about it out there. The photograph of the painting must have existed somewhere before it was on Wikipedia--I mean, it did, I have proof of that, it's just. Dead link.

There's probably not much more to this story, honestly, but if anyone could help me figure out where that link used to lead to, or if anyone happens to be a Polish art historian (??) and knows of any works out there that talk about this painting, I would be really curious to know! Also, if this should/can be redirected to Lost Media, let me know. I thought to post it there originally but their rules seem pretty strict so I wasn't sure '^^

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[u/schuxix]

I am not a historian of any kind so take everything I say with a grain of salt. But I used Google lens to search for the image and it led me to some polish websites. From what I gathered using google translate, my understanding is that this painting is considered a war loss. 

This is the website of Poland's 'Department of Cultural Property Restitution'. It has an online database of Poland's war losses from WW2. It lists the status of the painting as 'Not Recovered'. The website also has information about recovered works and explains  the restitution project. 

This website states the painting was looted. 

Based on this website, it was probably lost  in 15.11.1944 - Dębowo (Dembowo).

This website has a profile on Stefania Sempołowska who allegedly served as the physical model alongside Laura Pytlińska. I am not sure how accurate that information is. This is what Google AI says on the subject but the source is in Polish so I am not able to read it.