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Portrait of Stanislaw Lubomirski

Maria Giovanna Clementi

Basic information

ID: Ж-5908
Author: Maria Giovanna Clementi
Name: Portrait of Stanislaw Lubomirski
Technique: oil painting
Material: duplicated canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 80 x 64.5

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Plot: Portrait
Provenance: the Lubomirski collection
Exposition: Potocki Palace

Information about author

Author: Maria Giovanna Clementi
Artist's lifetime: 1692–1761
Country: Italy
Biography: Maria Giovanna Clementi (1692–1761), also known as la Clementina, was an Italian artist specialising in portraits. The artist was born in Turin. She was the daughter of the surgeon Giovanni Pietro Giuseppe Bussano and Maria Cristina Ausineti. Her husband was Giuseppe Bartolomeo Clementi, about whom little is known. She received her education in Turin under the court painter Giovanni Battista Curlando, who advised her to specialise in portraiture. From 1722 onwards, the artist worked at the royal court, painting portraits of the Savoy royal family.

Object description

The painting depicts a young man in luxurious eighteenth-century clothing. Stanislaw Lubomirski was a Volyn magnate, Voivode of Bratslav and Kyiv, and a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle. In the first half of the eighteenth century, he was considered the wealthiest man in Poland. Lubomirski owned 31 towns and 738 villages, with an annual income of nearly three million zlotys. Lubomirski highly valued his noble heritage and was an ambitious, proud, and extravagant individual. He was also influential in Poland's political circles, serving as a Sejm (parliament) member and even once contending for the royal crown and throne. Stanislaw Lubomirski spent the last years of his life in Warsaw. The author portrayed Lubomirski in his youth, at the height of his strength and ambitions. He confidently and proudly gazes at the viewer, pointing to himself with his right hand. Beside Stanislaw are books and drawings, indicating his erudition and nobility.

Portrayed person