shimmy,
I believe that the name "Sapieha" is a surname for both Princes and
Princesses, rather than a feminine first name "Sophia".
http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/sapieha.html
"Potocka, Pelagia Roza comtesse
Birth : 31 AUG 1775
Death : 12 MAR 1846 Paris
Gender: Female
Parents:
Father: Potocki, Stanislaw Feliks Szczesny comte
Mother: Mniszchówna, Józefa Amalia comtesse
Family:
Marriage: 1793 in Grodnie
Spouse:
Sapieha, Franciszek prince
Birth : 28 FEB 1772 Varsovie
Death : 30 MAY 1829 Dereczyn
Gender: Male
Parents:
Father: Sapieha, Aleksander Michal
Mother: Lubomirska, Magdalena Agnieszka princesse
Children:
Sapiezanski-Siwierski, Eustachy Gatan prince
Sapiezanka-Siwierska, Aniela Angelica princesse"
http://users.skynet.be/nobily/nobily/dat14.html
This painting is in the traveling exhibit "Leonardo Da Vinci and the
Splendor of Poland: A History of Collecting and Patronage" currently
at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX, through February 16, 2003.
http://www.mfah.org/main.asp?target=exhibition&par1=1&par2=1&par3=98&bhcp=1
The exhibit will then be shown at the Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco / California Palace of the Legion of Honor from March 8
through May 15, 2003.
http://www.thinker.org/press/press.asp?presskey=110
While I was not able to find a poster of this painting, I believe that
a print of it exists in the exhibition catalogue, the pages of which
are 9.74" x 12.26":
http://www.polonia.com/polishbooks/product.asp?sku=2122
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300097409/ref=ase_photcitalfineart/002-4903071-9179231
According to the Bat Guano website, this painting is owned by the
Royal Castle in Warsaw ( http://www.zamek-krolewski.art.pl ), and
Andrzej Rottermund, Director of the Royal Castle, was a contributor to
the exhibition catalogue. You may want to consider contacting him to
see if he can tell you whether a print is available:
The Royal Castle
Plac Zamkowy 4
00-277 Warsaw
tel. (048 22) 65 72 170
fax (048 22) 635 72 60,
(048 22) 635 04 98
e-mail: zamek@zamek-krolewski.art.pl
http://www.zamek-krolewski.art.pl/kierowni1.htm
I hope that you are able to find exactly what you need!
Regards,
aceresearcher |