Portrait of Franciszek Salezy Potocki
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Basic information
- ID
- Ж-4536
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- Portrait of Franciszek Salezy Potocki
- Date of creation
- 18th c.
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- canvas oil
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 61.5 x 44.6
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- portraiture
- Provenance
- Collection of Wiktor Baworowski
Information about author
Object description
Franciszek Salezy Potocki (1700–1772) was the son of Jozef Potocki and Teofila Cetner. He was a voivode of Belz, 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 – Anna Potocka, the mother of Stanislaw Szczesny, who founded Sofiyivka Park in Uman. The half–length portrait of the man is done in the traditional manner: the figure is turned three–quarters to the right, he is wearing a terracotta–red caftan with a blue ribbon and the Order of the White Eagle emerges out of a dark background. There is also a distinctive inscription: Franciszek Potocki / Wda Kijowski / Kaniwski, starosta. The inscription was obviously made later, as Salezy Potocki was not the elder of Kaniv. According to M. Gebarowicz, the artist mistakenly confused the portrayed man with Mikolaj Potocki.
Portrayed person
- The name of the person portrayed
- Franciszek Salezy Potocki
- Lifetime of the person portrayed
- 1700–1772
