Anna Rajecka
Anna Rajecka (* 1762 in Warsaw , † 1832 in Paris ) was a Polish painter and draftsman .
Life
Anna Rajecka was born in 1762. She was raised as a ward by King Stanislaus II August Poniatowski of Poland. Contemporaries suspected that she could have been an illegitimate daughter of the king. From 1783, Rajecka was able to study at the art school for women of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in the Louvre at his expense . Her teachers were Louis Marteau , Marcello Bacciarelli and possibly Jean-Baptiste Greuze . The Polish king planned that Rajecka should teach art herself on her return. However, after she married the writer and painter Pierre-Marie Gault de Saint-Germain in 1788, she decided to stay in Paris. In 1789 Rajecka stayed in Dresden while passing through . There she could have painted a pastel portrait of the actress Aleksandra Potocka , which could be related to Anton Graff's painting Bacchante . In 1791 she was the first Polish woman to exhibit in the Paris Salon . During the reign of terror , she flew to Clermont-Ferrand . Rajecka went blind in 1824. She died in Paris in 1832.
Anna Rajecka's work consists primarily of portraits , which she executed both as paintings and drawings. Initially she mainly painted members of the Polish court, after moving to Paris she painted portraits of French aristocrats.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ magazine review , in: Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Institut (Ed.): Scientific Service for East Central Europe , Vol. 15, Marburg 1965, p. 30.
- ↑ Harald Marx: Anton Graff. Bacchantin , in: ders. (Ed.): Masterpieces from the Dresden Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. After the flood , Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-363-00811-2 , p. 226.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rajecka, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1832 |
| Place of death | Paris |