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:: Works of Art :: Paintings in collections of Polish museums and libraries ::
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"COPERNIC"
ca. half of XIX c.
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, museum collection, cat. no. MK 3529
Painting on canvas glued on the glass, miniature, - tondo with diam. 11 cm
Bust turned into left, face with a moustache, double chain on the chest
Friedrich Kloss
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
Lidzbark Warmiński, 1784
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, museum collection, cat. no. MK 3411
Oil on canvas, oval: 70,5 x 61 cm
Bust turned into the left, beside sketched outline of the celestial globe. Painting is one of the series of portraits of outstanding Polish personages painted for the bishop Ignacy Krasicki
Jan Gładysz (ok. 1762-1830)
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
1810
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, museum collection, cat. no. MK 3468
Oil on canvas, size 117 x 74 cm
Sitting figure turned into left with the canonry insignia of rank on the breast, with a drawing of the heliocentric system lying on his knees and a lunette (!) in his left hand. Beside standing a celestial globe, in the background a sun-dial and gleam of the sunset on the horizon. Painting was ordered by Rose rector of the grammar-school in Płock for an astronomical observatory of his own project.
Karl Młodnicki(1835 - 1900)
COPERNICUS ON A DEATHBED
1890
The National Museum in Wrocław, VIII - 2364
Oil on canvas, 34 x 41,5 cm
Jan Matejko
COPERNICUS ASTRONOMER OR TALK TO GOD
1873, Cracow
The Jagiellonian University Museum in Cracow, inv. no 2715-851/I
Oil, canvas 225 x 315 cm
Painting made on occasion of 400 anniversary of Copernicus' birth. H. Levitoux. was a model for Copernicus' figure. Signature on the left side in the middle Jan Matejko / 19 lutego 1873.
Jan Matejko
SKETCH TO THE PAINTING "COPERNICUS ASTRONOMER OR TALK TO GOD"
1871, Cracow
The National Museum in Cracow, Jan Matejko's house, inv. no IX/25
Oil, cardboard 41,5 x 52,5
Jan Matejko
INFLUENCE OF UNIVERSITY ON THE NATION IN XV C.- NEW IDEAS - HUSSITISM AND HUMANISM
1888, Cracow
The National Museum in Warsaw, inv. no. MP 5059 MNW5. Mahogany board 69 x 116 cm
Leading scholars of XV c. were grouped by Jan Matejko on the gothic yard of the Jagiellonian Library (including those who could not meet each other). In the distance on the right side dominates Copernicus' figure with hands upraised high and keeping an astronomical model in his right hand.
Jan Matejko
INFLUENCE OF UNIVERSITY ON THE NATION IN XV C.
?, Cracow
The Jagiellonian University Museum in Cracow, inv. no 2716 - 852/I
Oil, canvas, 245 x 345 cm
Description : detailed differences from above mentioned
Anonymous author, northern Germany work
SO CALLED "GRAMMAR-SCHOOL" PORTRAIT OF NICHOLAS COPERNICUS
Second half of XVI c.
The Regional Museum in Torun. inv. no MT/AD/217
Oak board, distemper, oil , 51 x 41,5 cm
Aleksander Lesser
DEATH OF N. COPERNICUS
Ca. 1873
The Regional Museum in Torun. inv. no MT/MK/146
Oil , canvas 43 x 52,5 cm
Walery Eliasz Radzikowski
DEATH OF N. COPERNICUS
1869
The Regional Museum in Torun. inv. no MT/S/315
Oil , canvas 51 x 41 cm
Leonard Torwirt (1911-1967)
COPY OF GRAMMAR-SCHOOL PORTRAIT OF N. COPERNICUS
1964
The Regional Museum in Torun. inv. no MT/MK/108
Distemper on wood, 51,5 x 41,5 cm
Władysław Barwicki
N. COPERNICUS AND HIS PREDECESSORS AND SUCCESSORS
1892
The Regional Museum in Torun
Water-colour, cartoon, 62,5 x 87,2 cm
Nora Zinck
COPY OF SO CALLED GOLUCHOWSKI PORTRAIT OF N. COPERNICUS
Poland, Poznan,1944
The National Museum in Warsaw, inv. no 190310
Oil on board 42,5 x 30 cm
So called Goluchowski portrait was owned by Czartoryski family in Goluchow. In 1939 moved into Poznan, currently lost.
H. Uziembło (1879-1949)
STATUE OF COPERNICUS ON THE COLLEGIUM MAIUS YARD
Before 1949, Cracow
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 17241-3015/II
Paper, water-colours 50 x 35 cm within frame, 55 x 47 cm including frame
H. Kostecka w/g M. Stachowicza
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
1961, Cracow
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 11329-2321/II
Cartoon, water-colours, crayon, 50 x 35,3 cm
In the rim description: Nicolaus-Copernicus Astro: obserwator 1473-1543
Antoni Gramatyka (1841-1922)
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS IN HIS STUDY
1900, Cracow
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 5460-1044/I
Oil on canvas 160 x 200 cm
Unknown
PORTRAIT OF NICHOLAS COPERNICUS THE FATHER
XVII c.
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 6560-372/I
Oil on canvas, 60 x 47 cm
Ordered by Jan Brożek
Jan Kanty Wojnarowski
PORTRAIT OF NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
XIX c.
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 2004-315/I
Oil on cardboard 12,5 x 9,5 cm
Unknown
PORTRAIT OF NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
XVII w.
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 1974-269/I
Oil, canvas 39,5 x 28 cm
Unknown
PORTRAIT OF NICHOLAS COPERNICUS
Ca. 1920
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 7535-1181/I
Oil, canvas on cardboard
Ludwik Stasiak
PORTRAIT OF NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
Ca. 1910, Cracow
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 2819-977/I
Oil on cardboard 83 x 59 cm
Zdzisław Pabisiak
PORTRAIT OF YOUNG COPERNICUS
Ca. 1958, Cracow
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 1806-43/I
Oil, board, 67 x 49 cm
Agnieszka Chojkowska - Sawicka
PORTRAIT OF N. COPERNICUS- COPY AFTER XVIII C. PICTURE
1982, Cracow
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 14285-1226/I
Oil, canvas, 64 x 47,5 cm
Romuald Reguła
COPERNICUS AND HIS IDEA
1973, Cracow
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 5479-1088/I
Oil, canvas 140 x 91 cm
Unknown
PORTRAIT OF N. COPERNICUS - COPY AFTER TORUNIAN PORTRAIT
End of XVIII c.
The Varmia and Mazury Museum in Olsztyn, inv. no MNO 515 OMO
Oil, canvas, 58 x 42 cm
Leonard Torwirt
PORTRAIT OF N. COPERNICUS
1955
The Varmia and Mazury Museum in Olsztyn, inv. no MNO 497 OMO
Oil, canvas, 50,8 x 40,3 cm