Princess Izabela Lubomirska, actually: Elżbieta Czartoryska (born May 21, 1733 or according to other sources 1736 in Warsaw, died November 25, 1816 in Vienna) - patroness and collector of art of the Rococo period. Because of the blue dresses she often wore, she was called the Blue Marquise while she was still alive. Daughter of August Aleksander Czartoryski and Maria Zofia Sieniawska. She was the wife of Grand Crown Marshal Stanislaw Lubomirski and mother of Julia Potocka, Konstancja Rzewuska, Izabela Potocka and Aleksandra Potocka. She owned, among others, the palace in Wilanów, the palace in Ursynów (then called Rozkosza) and the palace Mon Coteau in Mokotów (Szustra Palace). She laid the cornerstone of the National Theater building in Warsaw and initiated the reconstruction of the castle in Łańcut in Rococo style at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. One of the most prominent women in 18th century Poland, she took an extremely active part in the politics of her camp, courting both foreign courts and the noble masses. Initially sympathetic to Stanislaw August Poniatowski, she later fought him passionately. Embittered by the failure of this action, she moved to Paris, and after the outbreak of the revolution she stayed in Vienna. In addition to her political activities, she distinguished herself as a progressive protector of the peasantry.
Zaklad Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, publishing house of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1976
Format: 245 x 175 mm, 635s.
Hardcover, nice condition. slight soiling to the endpapers, wrapper bears watering marks and minimal waviness.
Inside, numerous illustrations and a family tree of the Lubomirski family.
