Kasimir Malachowski,Cannonnier en 1784 - Major en 1794, en Pologne. Chef de bataillon dans les légions d'Italie, en 1797. Commandant la Lègion polonaise à St Domingue, en 1803. Général de Brigade en 1812-Généralissime en 1831. Né à Wisxniow et Litavnie, le 24 Février 1765. Mort à Chantilly en France le Janvier 1845.
Kwiaskowski del. J. Hopwood sc. [De la Coll.on de Léonard Chodzko.]
[Paris: P. Dien, n.d., c. 1840.]
Mezzotint on steel. Printed area 140 x 95mm (5½ x 3¾").
A portrait of Kazimierz Malachowski of Gryf (1765-1845), a general of both the armed forces of Duchy of Warsaw and the Kingdom of Poland. After fighting with the French during the Napoleonic Wars, he is best remembered as one of the last Commanders-in-Chief of the failed November Uprising, assuming command shortly after the disastrous battle of Warsaw in 1831. From the collection of Leonard Chodzko (1800-71), a Polish historian active in the November Uprising of 1830 and the Great Emigration that followed it.
[Ref: 31846] £95.00
[Paris: P. Dien, n.d., c. 1840.]
Mezzotint on steel. Printed area 140 x 95mm (5½ x 3¾").
A portrait of Kazimierz Malachowski of Gryf (1765-1845), a general of both the armed forces of Duchy of Warsaw and the Kingdom of Poland. After fighting with the French during the Napoleonic Wars, he is best remembered as one of the last Commanders-in-Chief of the failed November Uprising, assuming command shortly after the disastrous battle of Warsaw in 1831. From the collection of Leonard Chodzko (1800-71), a Polish historian active in the November Uprising of 1830 and the Great Emigration that followed it.
[Ref: 31846] £95.00