*** Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow Wieńczysław and Konstanty Potocki








Von Schadow Portraits: Wieńczysław and Konstanty Potocki (Germany, about 1810)

Wieńczysław and Konstanty Potocki

Figure 1.--We are not sure about a portrait of Polish siblings--'Wieńczysław and Konstanty Potocki in childhood' painted in 1820. We asre not sure what to make of it. We thought at first this was depicted medieval children. But 1820 was when Schadow was in Italy. (The scene outside the window looks more Italian than Polish--perhaps Rome or Folorence.) We know nothing about the two children, but the Potocki family was a prominent Polish aristocratic family with a long history. This was during the Congress Kingdom of Poland era before the 1830 rising agauinst the Russians when Poles were fairly free to travel. We are not sure if the family were among the French or Russisan oriernted Poles. We suspect this was a regular portrait commission and not any attempt at historical painting. The clothing, especuilly the boy's cloything, howsever, dors not look much like 1820s styles to us.

We are not sure about a portrait of Polish siblings--'Wieńczysław and Konstanty Potocki in childhood' painted in 1820. We asre not sure what to make of it. We thought at first this was depicted medieval children. But 1820 was when Schadow was in Italy. (The scene outside the window looks more Italian than Polish--perhaps Rome or Folorence.) We know nothing about the two children, but the Potocki family was a prominent Polish aristocratic family with a long history. This was during the Congress Kingdom of Poland era before the 1830 rising agauinst the Russians when Poles were fairly free to travel. We are not sure if the family were among the French or Russisan oriernted Poles. We suspect this was a regular portrait commission and not any attempt at historical painting. The clothing, especuilly the boy's cloything, howsever, dors not look much like 1820s styles to us.







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