Napoleon Orda "JANÓW NAD RZEKĄ SNIWODA" (GUB. PODOLSKA)
Size without frame: 39,8cm x 30cm
Size with frame: 43cm x 33cm
"Here was born Stefan Witwicki poet r 1801-Died in Rome r 1847.-Owned once by Priest Stanislaw Choloniewski."
Yaniv (ukr. Іванів) - a village in Ukraine in the Kalinov region, Vinnytsia oblast.
- The castle in Yaniv was built in the shape of a quadrangle in 1410 by Adam Myshka, completed by his father Nikolai. Three square towers have survived to modern times
- a palace rebuilt from the castle's gatehouse and two towers in the 18th century in the late Baroque and Classicist style by Adam Choloniewski (d. 1772). The long-standing residence of the Choloniewskis of the Korczak coat of arms, located on the pediment. The main two-story part topped by a triangular pediment.
Below the view the title (also in French) and signatures - drawn from nature by Napoleon Orda (1807-1873).
Printed in a well-known Warsaw workshop of Maksymilian Fajans, comes from the series "Album of historical views of Poland". Placed in a frame behind glass (hook for hanging).
Condition: yellowing of the paper
Napoleon Mateusz Tadeusz Orda coat of arms Orda (born February 11, 1807 in Vorotsevichy, died April 26, 1883 in Warsaw). Polish illustrator, painter, pianist and composer. He studied mathematical and natural sciences at Vilnius University. In 1833, in Paris, he took up painting studies with the landscape painter Pierre Girard and music studies with Frederic Chopin. After numerous travels, he returned to Poland in 1856 and settled in his hometown of Vorotsevichy. During his numerous travels around the country, he made more than 1,000 drawings from nature. In 1873 he undertook the monumental task of publishing his own "Album of historical views of Poland". 260 views were published in lithography. They were drawn on stone by Alojzy Misierowicz.
