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Franciszek Smuglewicz, Jan Chrystian Kamsetzer i pamięć synów o Józefie Prozorze

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Michalczyk Z.

Biuletyn Historii Sztuki

2014

vol. 76

issue 2

197-217

The name of the Witebsk Voivode Józef Prozor and his relatives has been permeated in history of culture and Polish art of Neo-Classicism by Franciszek Smuglewicz, author of the portrait of the Prozor family, a work that despite formal flaws, ranks among the canon of Polish painting from the late 18 th century. The work features family members grouped around a medallion with the portrait of the late Józef Prozor. Source materials shed some new light on the circumstances how the portrait was created. Commissioned by Karol, the eldest son of Witebsk Voivode, the effigy of Józef Prozor was modeled on his death mask. Moreover, Karol Prozor commissioned from the royal architect Jan Chrystian Kamsetzer a monumental tomb forming an obelisk, intentioned to be placed in Siehniewicze, possibly somewhere in the vicinity of the Parish Church. It was executed at the stonemason’s workshop in Dębnik near Kraków, while the figure of the genius of death (gilded bronze) was commissioned in London (most likely through Franciszek Bukaty). In April 1792, preparations were carried out to dispatch the work to Siehniewicze and assemble it on site, yet most likely the political developments of the subsequent months, related to the Targowica Confederation, the 1792 Polish-Russian War, and Karol Prozor’s emigration prevented the transportation of the monument to Polesie.

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