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wardrobe set in aframe, andfumishings listed in a separate inventory (Sroczynska 1969). The
north wing provided residential quarters for the Palace’s administrative staff, including the
already-mentioned Cellary. It also accommodated the kitchens.
Except for the coat of arms on the tympanum, nothing changed on the Palace’s
exterior when it passed into the hands of Stanislaw Potocki and his wife. On the
other hand, the interiors of the former Czartoryski residence were renovated and ac-
quired new furniture, and some of its rooms, such as the library, were redecorated in
the spirit of the times in the Empire style. These changes were done in 1800-1806,
but they did not involve any major transformations, as the Palace had already had
a Classicist conversion, brought in by its previous proprietress with a contribution
from her daughter and son-in-law. Sobolewski had probably moved out by this time,
and Count Stanislaw Kostka turned the rooms he had vacated into premises for his
scholarly pursuits. In the rooms on the ground floor, now housing the offices of the
Minister of Culture and his deputy ministers, the learned Count drew up the Consti-
tution of the Congress Kingdom of Poland.
In 1815 Niemcewicz recorded in his diary that the longforgotten Voivode Stanislaw
Potocki was summoned, and in his house there were frequent meetings going on into the
late hours of the night on amendments to the constitution (Niemcewicz 1871, Vol. 2,
p. 259). Potocki must have written most of his book on the history of art in the
premises now used by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Another
of his scholarly achievements presumably created here was his multi-volume work
O wymowie i stylu (On Eloquence and Style). Fryderyk Chopin owned a copy, which
is now in the Czartoryski Library in Krakow (Miziolek and Kowalski 2010, p. 94).
The young composer must have known the Count, who often visited the Warsaw
Liceum and the University by his capacity as Minister of Public Education. In 1817-
1827 Chopin was a student in turn of both institutions, moreover he lived in accom-
modation on their premises. He almost certainly gave concerts in the Potocki Palace,
though probably after Stanislaw Kostka’s sudden death in September 1821.
What do we know about the interiors in which the Count wrote his books and
papers, and drew up his projects for the University of Warsaw and Museum of Fine
Arts? Documents from the period and pre-1939 photographs prove helpful. The
apartment used by the master of the house consisted of an antechamber, a reception
room for entertaining company, a bedroom and, apparently, three studies. All of
these rooms were newly painted and fastidiously redecorated. The walls were wain-
scoted, and muslin curtains put up in the windows. The furniture - sofas, chairs, and
settees - were re-upholstered to match the colour scheme of the walls and curtains.
In the bedroom the old painted ceiling and fireplace made with imitation marble and
stuccowork were left, but Princess Lubomirska’s white bed was removed and replaced
with a bed brought in from Wilanow Palace, which was another of Stanislaw and
Aleksandra’s properties. One of the rooms, which Potocki called his Grand Stuc-
cowork Study and held a number of statues, had its walls lined with glass cabinets
and low cupboards holding files of drawings, which were later moved to Wilanow
and eventually in the 1930s, along with the entire Wilanow Library, to the National
Library, where they have happily come down to our times. The files of drawings con-
tain Potocki’s invaluable reconstruction of the Villa of Pliny the Younger, and the
north wing provided residential quarters for the Palace’s administrative staff, including the
already-mentioned Cellary. It also accommodated the kitchens.
Except for the coat of arms on the tympanum, nothing changed on the Palace’s
exterior when it passed into the hands of Stanislaw Potocki and his wife. On the
other hand, the interiors of the former Czartoryski residence were renovated and ac-
quired new furniture, and some of its rooms, such as the library, were redecorated in
the spirit of the times in the Empire style. These changes were done in 1800-1806,
but they did not involve any major transformations, as the Palace had already had
a Classicist conversion, brought in by its previous proprietress with a contribution
from her daughter and son-in-law. Sobolewski had probably moved out by this time,
and Count Stanislaw Kostka turned the rooms he had vacated into premises for his
scholarly pursuits. In the rooms on the ground floor, now housing the offices of the
Minister of Culture and his deputy ministers, the learned Count drew up the Consti-
tution of the Congress Kingdom of Poland.
In 1815 Niemcewicz recorded in his diary that the longforgotten Voivode Stanislaw
Potocki was summoned, and in his house there were frequent meetings going on into the
late hours of the night on amendments to the constitution (Niemcewicz 1871, Vol. 2,
p. 259). Potocki must have written most of his book on the history of art in the
premises now used by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Another
of his scholarly achievements presumably created here was his multi-volume work
O wymowie i stylu (On Eloquence and Style). Fryderyk Chopin owned a copy, which
is now in the Czartoryski Library in Krakow (Miziolek and Kowalski 2010, p. 94).
The young composer must have known the Count, who often visited the Warsaw
Liceum and the University by his capacity as Minister of Public Education. In 1817-
1827 Chopin was a student in turn of both institutions, moreover he lived in accom-
modation on their premises. He almost certainly gave concerts in the Potocki Palace,
though probably after Stanislaw Kostka’s sudden death in September 1821.
What do we know about the interiors in which the Count wrote his books and
papers, and drew up his projects for the University of Warsaw and Museum of Fine
Arts? Documents from the period and pre-1939 photographs prove helpful. The
apartment used by the master of the house consisted of an antechamber, a reception
room for entertaining company, a bedroom and, apparently, three studies. All of
these rooms were newly painted and fastidiously redecorated. The walls were wain-
scoted, and muslin curtains put up in the windows. The furniture - sofas, chairs, and
settees - were re-upholstered to match the colour scheme of the walls and curtains.
In the bedroom the old painted ceiling and fireplace made with imitation marble and
stuccowork were left, but Princess Lubomirska’s white bed was removed and replaced
with a bed brought in from Wilanow Palace, which was another of Stanislaw and
Aleksandra’s properties. One of the rooms, which Potocki called his Grand Stuc-
cowork Study and held a number of statues, had its walls lined with glass cabinets
and low cupboards holding files of drawings, which were later moved to Wilanow
and eventually in the 1930s, along with the entire Wilanow Library, to the National
Library, where they have happily come down to our times. The files of drawings con-
tain Potocki’s invaluable reconstruction of the Villa of Pliny the Younger, and the