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Portrait of Waclaw Rzewuski

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Basic information

ID: Ж-1542
Author: unknown
Name: Portrait of Waclaw Rzewuski
Date of creation: 18th c.
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions (height x width, cm): 87 x 68.5

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Type: painting
Genre: portraiture
Provenance: the Rzewuski collection (Pidhirtsi Castle)

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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 is painted in the tradition of ceremonial portraiture of the 18th century. Waclaw Rzewuski is depicted in knightly armour; over his left shoulder is a blue ribbon of the Order of the White Eagle, which he was awarded in 1735. The grandeur of the portrait is emphasised by a hetman's mace and a red cape lined with white fur. The artist detailed the noble features of the man's face, particularly big grey eyes, a fashionable shaved forehead, a curled moustache, and a shaved chin. Pride and confidence are felt in the image of the person portrayed. The portrait belongs to the Rzewuski family collection, which included another similar image, which, according to the attribution of Volodymyr Ovsiichuk, was painted by Vasyl Petranovych, an artist from Zhovkva.

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