CIRCA 1740

With over 300 hundred rooms, Łańcut Castle is a lavish residence in Galicia, South Poland. In the second half of the eighteenth century it was redecorated by Stanislas Lubormirski (1722-1782) and his wife Isabelle Czartoryska (1736-1816) with the help of Vincenzo Brenna, co-architect of Pavlovsk. In 1786, Isabelle purchased marbles in Rome and furniture in Paris, including a table by BVRB later sold from the Riahi Collection, Christie's, New York, 2 November 2000, lot 10. The collections at Łańcut were further enriched throughout the nineteenth century, with members of the family buying in London, Paris, and Vienna. The collection remained at the castle with Alfred III Potocki (1886-1958) until 1944 when 600 cases of paintings, furniture and porcelain were shipped by train to Vienna and then to Paris and New York, where little by little the collection was sold off.