Biedrońska-Słotowa, Beata : Crossroads of costume and textiles in Poland: papers from the International Conference of the ICOM Costume Committee at the National Museum in Cracow, September 28 - October 4, 2003 (Krakau, 2005)

Agnieszka Bender

Fig. 1

Back of chasuble, Francois Glaize, Warsaw
1743, The Diocesan Museum in Płock;
photo by J. Powązka.

Fig. 2

Back of chasuble, Francois Glaize, Poland
1745, The Treasury of the Wawel Cathe-
dral; photo by J. Powązka.

the circle of contemporary patrons, from - initially - King Stanislas Leszczyński5,
to bishop Andrzej Stanisław Kostka Załuski, bishop Kajetan Sołtyk (briefly) and
- finally - King Stanislas Augustus Poniatowski.

Recently discovered sources seem to prove Francois Glaize was born around 1715.
Glaize supposedly arrived in Poland from Dresden, where from 1729 he probably
worked at a French tapestry workshop of Jean Pierre Mercier of Aubusson, super-
vised by Jacąues Nermot6. The workshop being in dire trouble in the 1740s when
commissions from the court were scarce, the workers went off to look for work on
their own, usually in other countries.

5 In the light of recent research, king Stanislas Leszczyńskie patronage remains hy-
pothetical. Detailed studies of French literaturę on the subject did not reveal a men-
tion of Francois Glaize.

6 Pagaczewski, J., Gobeliny z herbem Pogoń w Muzeum XX. Czartoryskich w Krakowie,
[in:] 'Prace Komisji Historii Sztuki', 1919, Vol. I, p. 86.

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