Portrait of Franciszek Salezy Potocki
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Basic information
- ID
- Ж-4524
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- Portrait of Franciszek Salezy Potocki
- Date of creation
- mid-18th c.
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- canvas oil
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 74.5 x 62
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- portraiture
- Provenance
- the Lubomirski collection Lviv Historical Museum
Information about author
Object description
Franciszek Salezy Potocki (1700–1772) was a son of Jozef Potocki and Teofila Cetner. He was a voivode of Belz, Carver (krajczy) of the Crown, voivode of Volyn and Kyiv. Franciszek Salezy Potocki was the owner of Chervonohrad (Khrystynopil), a philanthropist, who built hospitals. He was married twice: his first wife was Zofia Rzeczycka, the second one – Anna Potocka, the mother of Stanislaw Szczesny, who founded Sofiyivka Park in Uman. The waist-length image of the man is portrayed in a traditional manner. In the dark background, there is a carefully painted figure of a man turned three-quarters to the right, in a terracotta-red kontusz (a long robe) with a blue ribbon and the Order of the White Eagle. Researchers of Ukrainian painting attribute the authorship to various painters; Mieczyslaw Gebarowicz considered the portrait to be painted by a French artist, and Volodymyr Ovsiichuk attributes it to the works by Hiacintus Olesinski.
Portrayed person
- The name of the person portrayed
- Franciszek Salezy Potocki
- Lifetime of the person portrayed
- 1700–1772
