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The Palace’s history
the fa?ade of the Carmelite Church almost opposite the Palace, as some writers sug-
gest? Szreger is sometimes mentioned in connection with the superb corps de garde,
which was completed in the reign of Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-1795). No
doubt his name is considered due to the other commissions he did for Prince August
Aleksander Czartoryski, which we shall be discussing later.
Recently a new hypothesis has emerged on the grounds of an article in the War-
saw press, that the corps de garde was the work of a now virtually forgotten architect
known as Piotr Hiz (or Hiche), a Pole with French ancestry, who has already had
some study devoted to him (Sulerzyska 1970, pp. 377-378). The hypothesis was
originally put forward by Jakub Sito, who has published archival materials relat-
ing to the Palace preserved in two manuscripts (11308 and 11320) in the Czarto-
ryski Library in Krakow. In doing so he concluded that the project started in the
1750s, not the 1760s, and he drew attention to an intriguing passage in Czarto-
ryski’s ledger for 1754—1760 (Ksiqga Kontowa Augusta Aleksandra Czartoryskiego
1754-1760; ms 11323, p. 420), where Hiche was referred to as “the Architect” (Sito
2010, p. 13). Can Hiche, who received his professional training in Warsaw and
subsequently in Dresden, and who in 1744-1756 designed Hieronim Wielopol-
ski’s mansion on Nowy Swiat (Putkowska 2005), be regarded as the maker of the
whole of the Czartoryski Palace? According to earlier opinions Hiche was merely
the on-site technical and administrative manager (Malinowska in Kwiatkowska
and Malinowska 1976, p. 43). We shall have to wait for more research for a defini-
tive answer on Hiche’s contribution to the making of our masterpiece of Varsovian
architecture.
In 1762 the French master builder and engineer Pierre Ricaud de Tirregaille drew
up a plan of Warsaw, on commission from Franciszek Bielinski, Lord Grand Mar-
shal of Poland and “patron” of the Marszalkowska, the street named after him. The
vignette of Ricaud de Tirregaille’s plan shows seventeen of the capital’s finest edifices,
and one of them is the Czartoryski Palace (Fig. 9). The engraver presented only the
A Residence
fit for
the Princes
Czartoryski
Fig. 9. Elevation of the main building of the
Czartoryski-Potocki Palace, 1762; detail from
the vignette of Ricaud de Tirregaitle's plan of
Warsaw; AGAD
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the fa?ade of the Carmelite Church almost opposite the Palace, as some writers sug-
gest? Szreger is sometimes mentioned in connection with the superb corps de garde,
which was completed in the reign of Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-1795). No
doubt his name is considered due to the other commissions he did for Prince August
Aleksander Czartoryski, which we shall be discussing later.
Recently a new hypothesis has emerged on the grounds of an article in the War-
saw press, that the corps de garde was the work of a now virtually forgotten architect
known as Piotr Hiz (or Hiche), a Pole with French ancestry, who has already had
some study devoted to him (Sulerzyska 1970, pp. 377-378). The hypothesis was
originally put forward by Jakub Sito, who has published archival materials relat-
ing to the Palace preserved in two manuscripts (11308 and 11320) in the Czarto-
ryski Library in Krakow. In doing so he concluded that the project started in the
1750s, not the 1760s, and he drew attention to an intriguing passage in Czarto-
ryski’s ledger for 1754—1760 (Ksiqga Kontowa Augusta Aleksandra Czartoryskiego
1754-1760; ms 11323, p. 420), where Hiche was referred to as “the Architect” (Sito
2010, p. 13). Can Hiche, who received his professional training in Warsaw and
subsequently in Dresden, and who in 1744-1756 designed Hieronim Wielopol-
ski’s mansion on Nowy Swiat (Putkowska 2005), be regarded as the maker of the
whole of the Czartoryski Palace? According to earlier opinions Hiche was merely
the on-site technical and administrative manager (Malinowska in Kwiatkowska
and Malinowska 1976, p. 43). We shall have to wait for more research for a defini-
tive answer on Hiche’s contribution to the making of our masterpiece of Varsovian
architecture.
In 1762 the French master builder and engineer Pierre Ricaud de Tirregaille drew
up a plan of Warsaw, on commission from Franciszek Bielinski, Lord Grand Mar-
shal of Poland and “patron” of the Marszalkowska, the street named after him. The
vignette of Ricaud de Tirregaille’s plan shows seventeen of the capital’s finest edifices,
and one of them is the Czartoryski Palace (Fig. 9). The engraver presented only the
A Residence
fit for
the Princes
Czartoryski
Fig. 9. Elevation of the main building of the
Czartoryski-Potocki Palace, 1762; detail from
the vignette of Ricaud de Tirregaitle's plan of
Warsaw; AGAD
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