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in working order still in 1776, when two painters, Wawrzyniec Jasieriski and tukasz
Smuglewicz (father of Franciszek, more widely known and associated with the docu-
mentation for the paintings in the Domus Aurea in Rome) restored it to its original
glory (Pokora 1993, p. 22, Fig. 11; Sito 2010, pp. 19-20).
Thanks to the latest research we also know that the Prince Voivode ordered another
contraption for the festivities to celebrate the royal name-day. It was installed in the
court of the Radziwill (now Presidential) Palace and cost 16,521 Polish zloty — even
more than “Bacchus’ machine” in the forecourt of the Visitandine Church. Appar-
ently its decorations included herm pillars, 800 gilt lanterns (sic!), vases set up on
plinths, and a royal crown (Sito 2010, p. 19). Thus, within two years of Stanislaw
August’s election to the throne of Poland-Lithuania, Prince August Aleksander
Czartoryski had got over his disappointment on missing the opportunity of putting
his son Adam Kazimierz on the throne, enough to honour the royal feast-day in a
well-nigh spectacular manner.
Prince August Aleksander Czartoryski, commended by compatriots and foreigners
alike for his civic virtues and hospitality, ended his days in 1782, shortly before his
equally outstanding son-in-law, Stanislaw Lubormirski (1721-1783: Fig. 31), today
remembered as a genuine patriot and author of an invaluable memoir on the first
years of the reign of Stanislaw August Poniatowski (to 1768; see Lubomirski 1971).
Bereaved within the space of just over a year of her husband, by whom she had had
four daughters, and her father, as well as deprived of their support, Izabela was gener-
ously remunerated from their estates, which included not
only the Palace on the Krakowskie Przedmiescie,
but also Laricut Castle and Wilanow Palace
(Fig. 32). Her annual revenues exceeded
those of her erstwhile lover and would-
be husband, King Stanislaw August.
There was something disquieting
about this refined, educated, ad
at the same time whimsical
woman. Perhaps the best de-
scriptions of her character
came from the writer Julian
Ursyn Niemcewicz, and
from her daughter-in-law
Anna Potocka nee Tysz-
kiewicz (Wqsowiczowa
by her second marriage),
who wrote the follow-
ing in her memoirs,
She was called the Pritt-
cess Marshal [ksi?zna
marszalkowa]. It would
have heen hard to encoun-
ter another person with a
sW''
jam
Izabela
Lubomirska nee
Czartoryska
and her times
Fig. 31. Marcello Bacciarelli, Portrait of Prince
Stanistaw Lubomirski, oils on canvas, ca. 1770;
Wilanow Palace Museum
Fig. 32. Alexander Roslin, Portrait of the Prin-
cess Marshal Izabela Lubomirska nee Czarto-
ryska, before 1781, oils on canvas; Wilanow
Paiace Museum
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in working order still in 1776, when two painters, Wawrzyniec Jasieriski and tukasz
Smuglewicz (father of Franciszek, more widely known and associated with the docu-
mentation for the paintings in the Domus Aurea in Rome) restored it to its original
glory (Pokora 1993, p. 22, Fig. 11; Sito 2010, pp. 19-20).
Thanks to the latest research we also know that the Prince Voivode ordered another
contraption for the festivities to celebrate the royal name-day. It was installed in the
court of the Radziwill (now Presidential) Palace and cost 16,521 Polish zloty — even
more than “Bacchus’ machine” in the forecourt of the Visitandine Church. Appar-
ently its decorations included herm pillars, 800 gilt lanterns (sic!), vases set up on
plinths, and a royal crown (Sito 2010, p. 19). Thus, within two years of Stanislaw
August’s election to the throne of Poland-Lithuania, Prince August Aleksander
Czartoryski had got over his disappointment on missing the opportunity of putting
his son Adam Kazimierz on the throne, enough to honour the royal feast-day in a
well-nigh spectacular manner.
Prince August Aleksander Czartoryski, commended by compatriots and foreigners
alike for his civic virtues and hospitality, ended his days in 1782, shortly before his
equally outstanding son-in-law, Stanislaw Lubormirski (1721-1783: Fig. 31), today
remembered as a genuine patriot and author of an invaluable memoir on the first
years of the reign of Stanislaw August Poniatowski (to 1768; see Lubomirski 1971).
Bereaved within the space of just over a year of her husband, by whom she had had
four daughters, and her father, as well as deprived of their support, Izabela was gener-
ously remunerated from their estates, which included not
only the Palace on the Krakowskie Przedmiescie,
but also Laricut Castle and Wilanow Palace
(Fig. 32). Her annual revenues exceeded
those of her erstwhile lover and would-
be husband, King Stanislaw August.
There was something disquieting
about this refined, educated, ad
at the same time whimsical
woman. Perhaps the best de-
scriptions of her character
came from the writer Julian
Ursyn Niemcewicz, and
from her daughter-in-law
Anna Potocka nee Tysz-
kiewicz (Wqsowiczowa
by her second marriage),
who wrote the follow-
ing in her memoirs,
She was called the Pritt-
cess Marshal [ksi?zna
marszalkowa]. It would
have heen hard to encoun-
ter another person with a
sW''
jam
Izabela
Lubomirska nee
Czartoryska
and her times
Fig. 31. Marcello Bacciarelli, Portrait of Prince
Stanistaw Lubomirski, oils on canvas, ca. 1770;
Wilanow Palace Museum
Fig. 32. Alexander Roslin, Portrait of the Prin-
cess Marshal Izabela Lubomirska nee Czarto-
ryska, before 1781, oils on canvas; Wilanow
Paiace Museum
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