Glorietta

The photograph presents the Classicist Gloriette situated in the north-western corner of the garden, within the walls. The Gloriette, in the form of a colonnaded exedra, was designed by Christian Peter Aigner for Marshal Princess Izabella Lubomirska née Czartoryska (deceased in 1816), similarly to the Classicist orangery and the neo-Gothic frontal (western) façade of the castle (not preserved) or several representative Classicist interiors on the first floor of the castle. Princess Lubomirska also ordered an exedra in the Mokotów Park. The semicircular exedra in Łańcut, which Aigner erected together with the plasterer Fryderyk Bauman, comprises seven Corinthian columns set on low plinths and topped with entablature decorated with bucranium, rosettas, denticles and a profiled cornice. During the modernisation work in the Łańcut residence, carried out at the turn of the 20th century by Third Lord Ordynat Roman Potocki and his wife Elżbieta née Radziwiłł, a sculpture presenting Diana, nowadays exhibited in the Sculpture Gallery, was put on the cylindrical plinth in front of the revamped Gloriette. The sculpture was commissioned from the fashionable French sculptor, Prosper d’Èpinay. Its copy is standing on the plinth in front of the Gloriette. Aldona Cholewianka-Kruszyńska