Oil, canvas; size: 60 x 85 cm; signed p. d.: Kalina 17 VI 877 Condition: damage to the painting, damage to the frame (plasterboard).
Kalina - a Polish artist known from single works preserved in museum collections; perhaps a pseudonym of a painter so far unrelated to him. Lit.: SAP, T. III, p. 320
The painting, with a probability of 80%, depicts the residence of the Świdziński family in Sulgostow (According to the findings of Dr. Dariusz Kalina), in the Mazowieckie province, Przysucha district. Stanislaw Swidzinski (born 1685) senator and governor of Braclaw, acquired Sulgostow, and his successor - also Stanislaw - erected a residence called Zameczek. In the 19th century it became the property of the Krasinski family. Klementyna Hoffmanowa, née Tańska, grew up here, and perpetuated the palace in her memoirs. Eustachy Iwanowski (Kilka rysów i pamiątek, Poznań 1860) wrote: "Konstanty [Krasinski], decorated the Sulgosts with a great collection of books, rare prints and manuscripts. No less and a beautiful collection has engravings and paintings. The clump, where the governor's house once stood, surrounded by a canal. An ancient gate remains so far, next to it chestnut trees, two of which come out of the trunk of one, the third separate. Together they weave into one crown, a great circle set with hornbeams form a great hornbeam hall, planted by the governor in memory of the birth of the granddaughter of the starostess of wyszogrodzka. Above the canal on the opposite side a street of already old fir trees. The clump, the canal, the fir trees constitute an ancient ornamental garden of Sulgostov. This one connects to the fruit garden in quarters planted covered with hornbeam rows. In the middle of the great linden gazebo, through which the passage from the clump to the palace, the entrance to the new house was also a stile going from the great gazebo." The palace complex in Sulgostow was destroyed during World War I and was not rebuilt
