
Portrait of Zofia Dzieduszycka, also Portrait of Juliuszowa Dzieduszycka – a painting by the Polish painter Henryk Rodakowski from 1874, located in the Gallery of Polish Art 1800–1945 of the Silesian Museum in Katowice.
The painter depicted in a portrait measuring 112.3 × 80 cm the wife of his friend Juliusz Dzieduszycki. Dzieduszycki was, m.in, the owner of the stud farm in Jarczowce. The National Museum in Warsaw settles a pencil sketch for the painting. Zofia Dzieduszycka née Bobrów (1830–1904) has a dark coat trimmed with fur. On the neck a few pearl necklaces. On the head a black veil. Until 1938 the portrait was owned by Maria Lubomirska. In 1939, the Silesian Museum purchased the painting for sale at the House of Art in Warsaw. The work is signed at 1/3 of the height: H. Rodakowski / 1874. Museum inventory number: MŚK/SzM/462.
Zofia Dzieduszycka, depicted in the portrait, was in 1844 the adersatka of the poem In the Diary of Zofia Bobrówna by Juiliusz Słowacki.
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