"Paintings , Copperplates, Drawings". Furnishings in the House of the Royal Painter Jan Bogumił Plersch Cover Image

„Obrazy, Kopersztychy, Rysunki". Wyposażenie domu malarza królewskiego Jana Bogumiła Plerscha
"Paintings , Copperplates, Drawings". Furnishings in the House of the Royal Painter Jan Bogumił Plersch

Author(s): Aleksandra Bernatowicz
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, History of Art
Published by: Arx Regia® Wydawnictwo Zamku Królewskiego w Warszawie – Muzeum
Keywords: Jan Bogumił Plersch; Stanisław August Poniatowski; material culture; art collecting; bibliophilia; artist’s house; artist’s social position; Warsaw bourgeois

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the text are the furnishings present in the house of Jan Bogumił Plersch, a painter, main decorator of the Royal residences and theatre set designer. The integral part of the text is the inventory of the house, published for the first time in extenso, accompanied by a scholarly commentary. This document, kept at the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, was written in 1786, while the artist was still alive (but after his wife’s death). So in a way the inventory can be treated as a list created by the painter himself. He must have taken the assessor around his house in Nalewki Street (land registry no. 2254) in Warsaw.

  • Issue Year: 1/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 201-240
  • Page Count: 39
  • Language: Polish