Portrait of Waclaw Rzewuski
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Basic information
- ID
- Ж-4620
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- Portrait of Waclaw Rzewuski
- Date of creation
- 1752–1753
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- canvas oil
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 83 x 64
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- portraiture
- Provenance
- the Rzewuski collection (Pidhirtsi Castle)
Information about author
Object description
Waclaw Rzewuski (1706–1779) was a Field Clerk of the Crown, Field Hetman of the Crown, and voivode of Krakow. He was a son of Stanislaw Mateusz Rzewuski, Field Herman of the Crown, and Ludwika Kunicka. Waclaw Rzewuski was the owner of the Pidhirtsi Castle since 1735. The portrait is painted in a ceremonial official manner. The waist-length image represents a nobleman slightly turned to the right, with a mace of a Field Hetman of the Crown, which Rzewuski got in 1752. Waclaw Rzewuski's professionally painted face with a haughty and purposeful look is depicted against a dark background. On top of a red robe girded with a Slutsk belt, there is a kontusz with decorative buttons painted in detail. On his chest, there is a Star of the Order of the White Eagle. The author aimed to convey the inner world of the person portrayed.
Portrayed person
- The name of the person portrayed
- Waclaw Rzewuski
- Lifetime of the person portrayed
- 1706–1779
