NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS
Volume II
Plate I Paul Delaroche (1797-1856), potrait of Prince Adam Jerzy
Czartoryski in exile in Paris, c. 1848. Muzeum Narodowe
(Wilanow).
Franciszek Paderewski (1767-1819), posthumous portrait of
Prince Jozef Poniatowski as Marshal of France, painted in 1814
from an earlier portrait by Bacciarelli. Muzeum Narodowe
(Wilanow).
Plate II W. Wodzinowski, Odpoczynek zniwiarzy (The Harvesters'
Rest). Muzeum Narodowe (Warsaw). (Anon.) Peasant
Devotions at Easter. Biblioteka Narodowa (Warsaw).
Plate III Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1851-1915), founder of the so-called
'Zakopane Style', father of the painter and dramatist of the same
name. Ranny powstaniec (The Wounded Insurrectionary)—a
scene from the January Rising (1863).
Muzeum Narodowe (Warsaw).
Aleksander Gierymski (1850-1902), together with his brother
Maksymilian, worked with the Munich School. His Warsaw
period, 1879-84, produced many memorable scenes of Jewish
life. His Swieto trqbek (Feast of the Trumpets, 1884) shows the
Tashlikh ceremony of the Jewish New Year in the Powisle dis-
trict. Following the text of Micah vii, 19, 'Thou shalt cast all their
sins into the depth of the sea', orthodox Jews sang and prayed be-
side the nearest stretch of water, in this case the River Vistula.
Note the Kerbedz Bridge, and the accordionist. Muzeum
Narodowe (Warsaw).
Plate IV Walenty Wankowicz (1800-42), portrait painter active first in
Minsk, later in Paris. One of several versions of his allegory,
Mickiewicz na Judahu skale. (Adam Mickiewicz on the Rock of
Judah, 1840), which likens the role of poet after the suppression
of the November Rising by the Russians to that of the biblical
prophets after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians.
Muzeum Narodowe (Warsaw).
Plate IV Aleksander Lesser (1814-84), Smierc Wandy (The Death of
Wanda). Wanda, the daughter of the legendary King Krak,