Portrait of General Jozef Dwernicki
Jan Tabinski
Basic information
- ID
- Ж-4837
- Author
- Jan Tabinski
- Name
- Portrait of General Jozef Dwernicki
- Date of creation
- 1859
- Country
- Austrian Empire
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- canvas oil
- Dimensions
- 47.5 x 39.5 cm (height x width)
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- portraiture
- Plot
- Portrait
- Provenance
- Vasyl Stefanyk Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv
Information about author
Object description
The portrait (1859) by Jan Tabinski is a reduced copy of a painting (1856) by Aleksander Raczynski (1822–1889), which in turn was based on the "The Portrait of General Jozef Dwernicki ", created by the French artist Jean Gigoux (1806–1894) in 1833 (Louvre). All three works are almost identical in composition and colour scheme, with only minor differences in details of clothing and surroundings. The work is a formal, knee-length portrait of an elderly grey-haired man with a moustache, wearing a double-breasted general's uniform with epaulettes and the Legion of Honour medal on his chest. The man rests his left hand on a sword, while his right hand is placed on a map lying on a small table (in the portraits by Gigoux and Raczynski, instead of the table with a map, there is a cannon). Wide sideburns frame his round face. His confident and determined gaze is directed at the viewer. The man is depicted against a battlefield backdrop, with a horse and rider visible to the left behind him. The background colour – a dark brown with deep red – symbolises fire, blood, and war.
Inscriptions
In the bottom right corner, the signature: "…biński". On the reverse side: "zur Stadt Rom".
Portrayed person
- The name of the person portrayed
- Jozef Dwernicki (1779, Warsaw – 1857, Lopatyn) was a Polish general and cavalry commander during the Polish November Uprising of 1831. He came from a noble family of the Sas coat of arms, which owned estates in Podillia. In the village of Zavallia stands the former Dwernicki Palace (now partly in ruins). He took part in Napoleon's campaigns. He was awarded the Legion of Honour (1813). Author of memoirs. In Lviv, from 1885 to 1946, there was a street named Dwernicki (now divided into three streets: Ilarion Svientsitskyi, Yurii Mushak, and Mykola Lemyk).
- Lifetime of the person portrayed
- 1779–1857
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
