Instytut Sztuki (Warschau) [Editor]; Państwowy Instytut Sztuki (bis 1959) [Editor]; Stowarzyszenie Historyków Sztuki [Editor]: Biuletyn Historii Sztuki (77.2015)

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Jelena W. Karpowa

Al 'antique Portrait. Contribution to the Research
into Tomasz Oskar Sosnowski 's Oeuvre

An attempt is made to identify the figure presented
in the marble bust by Tomasz Oskar Sosnowski in
the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw
(Inv. No. 158125). To date the work has been
regarded as the portrait of Tsar Nicholas I. However,
through a comparative iconographic and archival
research, the Author has ascertained that the
portrayed individual is Fyodor Berg, the last
Governor of the Kingdom of Poland. Apart from this
piece, Sosnowski also executed two identical Berg's

busts (the 1850s, St Petersburg, Mining Museum)
and his full-figure effigy (1868, lost). The Author
has additionally ascertained other sculptor's works
related to Russia: Fyodor Paskevich's bust (1854,
Yerevan, National Gallery of Armenia) and two
allegoric figures of Fame (Victory) and Law and
Order (ca 1850) placed on the outside stairs of the
Belvedere Pavilion at Babigon near Peterhof
(currently the remains in the collection of the
"Peterhof' palace and park complex).
Translated by Magdalena Iwińska