Turkish Apartment. Bedroom

Historical names: “Pokoy Sypialny”, the Bedroom
Time of construction: 1629-1641; ca. 1775
Architects: likely Maciej Trapola (1629-1641), Szymon Bogumił Zug (ca.1775)


Description:
The one-story apartment located in the northern wing, called the Turkish Apartment, belongs to the original 17th-century vaulted interiors of the Łańcut castle erected by Prince Stanisław Lubomirski (1583-1649), the first of this family to own Łańcut. Around 1775, during the times of Prince Stanisław Lubomirski, GCM, and his wife, Princess Izabela née Czartoryska (1736-1815), an apartment "painted in marble" was arranged here, consisting of a large living room in the middle with a vast arcade and a bedroom and bathroom (initially dressing room). The suite was called "Turkish" in the second half of the 19th century during the times of the second Łańcut ordinate, probably because of the exotic oil wall decoration in the bedroom which was removed in 1959). The third interior of this apartment is a square bedroom with a barrel-cross vault located in the corner of the northern and eastern wings. It has a shallow alcove in the southern wall, two windows in the northern wall and one in the eastern wall, hidden single-leaf doors in the cut corner to the north-eastern tower and single-leaf doors in the southern wall to the bathroom. In the centre of the west wall, there is a passage and a double door to the living room. Next to them, facing south, there is a cylindrical tiled stove - classicist made of white tiles - smooth at the bottom, forming a garland pedestal, in the centre imitating fluting, with a smooth cornice covered with an inverted base. The walls and vaults are covered (discovered in 1959-60 during restoration carried out by Bronisław Dąbek and Józef Edward Dutkiewicz) with illusionist paintings from the 1780s, imitating marbling and architectural divisions. These eighteenth-century paintings from the times of Duchess Lubomirska were embellished in the second half of the nineteenth century: the line of the vault and window recesses were decorated with a wide belt with bright oil-painted floral and flower motifs and crescents, while the alcove was upholstered with à la turque fabric. The bedroom was redecorated here again during the significant modernisation works commissioned at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries by the 3rd ordinate Roman Potocki (1851-1915) and his wife Elżbieta née Radziwiłł.

Bibliography:
Inventory of the Łańcut Castle, Extract, AGAD APŁ 786 Kossakowska-Szanajca Zofia, Majewska-Maszkowska Bożenna, Zamek w Łańcucie, Warsaw 1964, pp. 152-154 Majewska-Maszkowska Bożenna, Mecenat artystyczny Izabelli z Czartoryskich Lubomirskiej 1736-1816, Wrocław-Warsaw-Krakow 1976, pp. 147-148 Omilanowska Małgorzata, Sito Jakub, Katalog zabytków sztuki w Polsce, seria nowa vol. III, book 5,Warsaw 1994, pp. 27-28
Aldona Cholewianka- Kruszyńska