"POHREBYSZCZE" (KYIV G.)
Size without frame: 39.7cm x 30.1cm (28.8cm x 19.7cm)
Size with frame: 43.1cm x 33.3cm
"Ancient estate of the Counts Rzewuski family. Palace in the garden of General Count Adam
Rzewuski."
Pohrebyszcze (ukr. Погреби́ще) - a city in Ukraine, on the Russian River, in Vinnytsia Oblast, seat of the
authorities of the Pohrebyszcze region. It belonged to Prince Janusz Zbaraski. On the castle located here
castle belonging to the Rzewuskis gave birth to the sisters Evelina, later wife of Honorius Balzac, and
Karolina. In 1919 Ukrainian troops carried out a pogrom, depriving 350-400 Jewish
residents. In 1938 Pohrebyszcze received the status of an urban-type settlement, and since 1984 - the status of a
city. The population of the town is 10,800.
Below the view the title (also in French) and signatures - drawn from nature by Napoleon Orda
(1807-1873). Printed in the well-known Warsaw workshop of Maksymilian Fajans, it comes from the series
"Album of historical views of Poland." Housed in a frame behind glass (hook for hanging).
GOOD+ condition, minor soiling.
Napoleon Mateusz Tadeusz Orda coat of arms Orda (born February 11, 1807 in Vorotsevichy, died April 26.
April 1883 in Warsaw). Polish illustrator, painter, pianist and composer. He studied at the
Vilnius University in mathematical and natural sciences.
In 1833, he took up studies in Paris
painting under the landscape painter Pierre Girard and music under Frédéric Chopin. After numerous travels
he returned to Poland in 1856 and settled in his hometown of Vorotsevichy. During his numerous wanderings
around the country he made more than 1,000 drawings from nature. In 1873 he undertook the monumental task of publishing
at his own expense "Album of historical views of Poland". The lithography published 260
views. They were drawn on stone by Alojzy Misierowicz.
