Portrait of Kaietan Sadowski
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Basic information
- ID
- Ж-4648
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- Portrait of Kaietan Sadowski
- Date of creation
- 18th c.
- Country
- Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- canvas oil
- Dimensions
- 64.5 x 48.5 cm (height x width)
Additionally
Information about author
Object description
Kaietan Sadowski of Lubicz coat of arms was a colonel of the Lithuanian troops. He was a son of Ignatius Leonard Sadowski, the elder of Slonim, and Princess Teresa Czetwertynska. The half-length image of a man is painted following the canons of the ceremonial portraiture. Kaietan Sadowski is represented in a solemnly static pose. He is dressed in formal clothes with a blue ribbon and an order. Bright colours, excessive detailing of the image and accessories, a planar manner of execution, and solemnity, typical for primitive art paintings, characterise the image. The artist carefully reproduced the portrait features of the person portrayed, particularly bulbous almond-shaped eyes, a straight nose with swollen nostrils, a massive chin, and a small curled moustache. The family coat of arms emphasises the social status of the man. At the bottom of the painting is the inscription "Kaietan Sadowski syn Ignacego starosty Slonimskiego i Maryanny xiezniczki Czetwertynskiey kawaler orderu bawarskiego".
Portrayed person
- The name of the person portrayed
- Kaietan Sadowski
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
