Chinese gazebo

View of a summer house in Chinese style The painting is watercolours on paper, from the collection of the Lubomirscy, the former owners of the castle, behind a glass, it depicts a Chinese-style summer house. Princess Lubomirska, wife of marshal Lubomirski, commissioned a series of such depictions to show how to arrange summer houses and pavilions in Chinese style, which was popular until the end of the 18th century. This is confirmed by descriptions of these depictions in the castle inventory list of 1802. The painting shows a summer house on a neutral background. The painting is enlarged by embedding it on paper. The base of the summer house is a quite high base platform of grey stone, at the edges clad in wood, with geometric patterns. On the base, on four pillars, there is a pagoda roof with an openwork decoration at the top. Between the pillars, there is a low wooden banister, with an entrance at the front; two stair lead to it, similarly clad. The entire summer house (but not the base) is enveloped in a grey vine. All pictures from the series are framed the same way – wooden, with overlaid braidwork and rosettes in the corners; most likely made in Vienna. The paintings stem from the end of the 18th/ beginning of the 19th century, and were most probably made in China as reference templates. They are displayed in the bedroom of the Chinese Apartment, in the first floor of the castle of Łańcut.