Portrait of Waclaw Rzewuski
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Basic information
- ID
- Ж-6225
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- Portrait of Waclaw Rzewuski
- Date of creation
- c.1773
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- canvas oil
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 106 x 76
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- portraiture
- Provenance
- the Rzewuski collection (Pidhirtsi Castle) Museum of Jan III Sobieski in Lviv
- Exposition
- Olesko Castle
Information about author
Object description
Waclaw Rzewuski (1706–1779, Krzywda coat of arms) was the son of Stanislaw Mateusz Rzewuski and Ludwika Kunicka. His wife was Anna Lubomirska (c. 1717–1763), a daughter of Josef Lubomirski, voivode of Chernihiv. Waclaw Rzewuski was a Grand Crown Hetman, statesman and politician of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The portrait was painted on Waclaw Rzewuski's return from exile in Kaluga. The man is depicted against a drapery background and is dressed in a light zhupan, a long-lined inner garment, with a red kontusz over it, which is girded with an expensive Slutsk belt. The portrayed man holds a hetman's mace in his right hand. Waclaw Rzewuski is depicted with a blue ribbon with the Order of the White Eagle, which he was awarded with in 1735. A respectable man with a long beard has a tired facial expression. The image follows the traditions characteristic of 18th-century parade-representational works, which are marked by a ceremonial monumentality. A similar full-length portrait is at the Wilanow Palace. It served as a model for the creation of many half-length portraits.
Portrayed person
- The name of the person portrayed
- Waclaw Rzewuski
- Lifetime of the person portrayed
- 1706–1779
