Mycielski Jerzy and Wasylewski Stanisław - Polish Portraits of Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Polish Publishing House R. Wegner, Lviv - Poznań 1928, p. 287, dimensions 14.5 x 20.5 cm. 24 engravings in copperplate on separate plates. Cover and title page design by Ernest Czerper. Publisher's binding, leather bookbinding with gilt spine and color gilt on the face, retained booklet cover. Very good condition . A nice piece.
The edition was printed in the Agricultural Printing House of P. G. in Poznan according to the project and under the management of Jan Kuglin. Monograph of the work of an outstanding French portraitist of the 18th century. Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. The work characterizes portraits of Poles and Polish women of the turn of the 18th-19th centuries mainly from aristocratic circles. Among the people portrayed are: H. Lubomirski as the "Genii of fame", Anna of Cetner Kajetanowa Potocka, Pelagja of Potocka Franciszkowa Sapieżyna, Marja of Lubomirskis Protowa Potocka, Szczęsny Potocki junior, Feliks Woyna. At the end of the work, a detailed catalog of the artist's Polish works, including many considered lost.