Warsaw 2015/ Royal Baths Publishing House/ first edition/ publisher's binding, hardback with paper wrapper/ 23.5x30cm/s.576/ 203 color illustrations in the text/ very good condition
The publication is a catalog of paintings from the royal collection of Stanislaw August currently on display at the Royal Łazienki Park.
It contains descriptions and photographs of 137 paintings exhibited at the Palace on the Isle according to the inventory Catalogue des Tableaux appartenant a Sa Maj: Le Roi de Pologne 1795 (Catalogue of Paintings Belonging to His Majesty the King of the Republic of Poland 1795).The aim of the study is to revise the previous state of research on the collection in terms of both attribution and provenance of the works.
In the catalog special emphasis is placed on researching the history of the paintings and its source documentation. The glosses, authored by Dorota Juszczak and Hanna Małachowicz, curators of painting at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, are complemented by new photographs of the paintings taken after the restoration completed in 2014, as well as numerous photographs of comparative works.