Andrzej Jerzy de Mniszek

Paris, Universal Exhibition, 1878

Illustrated in Swiat dwutygodnik illustrowany, (the World) Krakow, 1889, pp. 68-69

Oil on panel. Under UV: Thin lines of inpainting to figure's hairline, forehead, in between eye's, in eyes, right side of nostril, left side of cheek, right cheek, right ear, neck, and along left side of face. Inpainting to petals of flower pins at left and right side of head. Some inpainting to flowers and hair. Inpainting to the white in the background of the costume and some of the embroidered leaves. Dots and dashes throughout background. Inpainting to address paint separation through branches to right of figure. Inpainting to leaves at right center edge. Inpainting to leaves above balustrade at right. Inpainting to both columns of balustrade at left. This lot will be offered without reserve.
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Count Andre J. Mniszech (Wolyn 1823 - Paris 1905) moved to Paris in 1852. The student of Jean Gigoux and L. Cognieta, he established himself as the portraitist to the Polish emigré aristocracy in France. Very few of his paintings were exhibited, however several portraits were exhibited in Warsaw in 1885, Krakow in 1882, and 1896 and in Paris in 1888. His autoportrait was exhibited in Vienna after his death in 1915.

After the death of his wife Anna Potocka in 1885 and his son Léon in 1902, his collection was sold in 1910. A significant portion of the collection remains in private hands, the remainders are preserved in the museums of Lille, Besançon, Warsaw, Poznan and thirty portraits in the Pavlikovski collection in Warsaw.