Dwie panie Sieniawskie i ich klientka Drużbacka z Wilanowem w tle
Two ladies Sieniawskie and their client Drużbacka with Wilanów in the background

Summary/Abstract: The authoress presents three women associated with Wilanów. Elżbieta Sieniawska (1668/69 – 1729), wife of Adam the grand hetman of the Crown and Kraków castellan, was one of the most influential women of the time of August II. The scale of her activity was large. She was involved in political, economic, cultural and artistic life. She bought Wilanów in 1720 because it provided prestige to the Sieniawski family as the owners of the formerresidence of King Sobieski. The only daughter of magnates, Maria Zofia Denhoff, was the heir to a great fortune, for which she was well prepared to manage. In 1730, she leased Wilanów to King August II. After his death in 1733, Wilanów returned again to Maria Zofia and her second husband August Czartoryski. Elżbieta Drużbacka, a trusted client of the Sieniawski family, poet, confidante of Maria Zofia, may have been to the palace in Wilanów. Siemiginowski’s plafonds "Four Seasons" found there could draw inspiration for the poem "Opisanie czterech części roku" (Describing the four parts of the year).

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