Marcinkowski, Wojciech [Editor]; Zaucha, Tomasz [Editor]; Museum Narodowe w Krakowie [Editor]: Plaster casts of the works of art: history of collections, conservation, exhibition practice ; materials from the conference in the National Museum in Krakow, May 25, 2010 (Krakau, 2010)

Plaster Casts of the Works of Art

the main wall with landscapes, the king planned to establish a sculpture gallery
comprising the plaster casts at the newly erected Orangery - now the so-called Old
Orangery. This idea, which was not put into life, was preserved in the design of Jan
Fig. 2. Jan Chrystian Chrystian Kamsetzer1' (fig. 2).

Kamsetzer, Project After the death of Stanisław August, the collection of plaster casts was owned
of the sculpture gallery by Józef Poniatowski.14 In 1811, the Education Chamber of the Duchy of Warsaw
in the Old Orangery, ' „ r it. . r 1 ■ 1 r 1

, n . re-purchased the collection trom the plenipotentiary of the prince,1'1 and gifted

1794, drawing, Print r r r / r ' o

Room of the University ü to the forming Department of Fine Arts.16 Up to 1817, the plaster casts were stored
of Warsaw Library in the Painting studio, under the supervision of Franciszek Paderewski (fig. 3). A year

Fig. 3. Jan Piotr Norblin,
Interior of the Painting
studio in the Royal
Castle, sanguine,
National Museum
in Warsaw

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