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Katarzyna Potocka née Branicka in oriental costume, 1854.

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Countess Potocka sat for this portrait in Paris where she went after returning from a trip to the Holy Land. She posed wearing a sleek and colorful, carmine-olive-black eastern outfit, thought to be Circassian or Turkish, which she adorned with several strings of pearls. Róża Krasińska, who with her mother went to Paris, wrote that she was a few times in the Winterhalter's studio, while the mother posed for her portraits. Winterhalter painted in Paris three portraits of the Countess Adamowa Potocka in the years 1854-1858.




Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805–1873)

Portrait of Katarzyna Potocka née Branicka in oriental costume.

Date1854

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensions116 × 88.5 cm (45.7 × 34.8 in)

National Museum in Warsaw

Signature bottom left: F. Winterhalter

Reference: Aldona Cholewianka-Kruszyńska, Panny Branickie z Białej Cerkwi na portretach F. X. Winterhaltera. "Gazeta Antykwaryczna" nr 9 2001, pp. 14-21

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