#Delfina Potocka

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Chopin Dying, Lionello Balestrieri (Italian, 1872-1958)

"The Polish Countess Potocka sings a psalm at his dying request".

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Portrait of Delfina Potocka (1807–1877) - Paul Delaroche

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Some more 1820s dresses -

Top left  1824 Front of court dress (Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti - Firenze, Toscana, Italy). From tumblr.com/lenkaastrelenkaa 1280X1902 @72 216kj.

Top right  1824 Back of court dress (Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti - Firenze, Toscana, Italy). From tumblr.com/lenkaastrelenkaa 1280X1902 @72 215kj.

Second row left  Delfina Potocka by ?. From Wikimedia; expanded to fit screen 1007X1300 @96 176kj.

Second row right  ca. 1826 Princess Auguste of Liegnitz by F. Krüger (Fichter Kunsthandel - 10Dec22 auction Lot ???). From invaluable.com;fixed worst foxing w Pshop 2701X3512 @150 4.9Mj.

Bottom  1829 Amélie von Leuchtenberg by Joseph Karl Stieler (location ?). From Wikimedia 1080X1328 @72 117kj.

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■ Delfina Potocka, née Komar (March 1807 – 2 April 1877), was a Polish countess, was a friend and muse to Polish expatriate artists Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1949) and Zygmunt Krasiński (1812-1859). She was noted for her beauty, intellect and artistic gifts. In her youth she was a piano student of Chopin.

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At Fryderyk’s deathbed

Rumours had began to spread in Paris that Fryderyk was dying. And so his appartment at No. 12 place Vendôme was filled with dozens of people; friends, who came to say farewell, pupils, to thank him while he encouraged them one last time, and a great number of mere aquaintances, who simply called in as a mark of respect. Fryderyk would hold a brave face while talking to them, but as soon as they left, he couldn’t hide his suffering anymore. His gasping breaths were hardly more than pitiful, stifled cries, horrifying sobs.

George Sand sent me a letter, in which she asked about Fryderyk’s condition. But the tone of the letter was ill-judged and jarring, filled with pompous insults and assumptions of ”motherly rights“, speaking of Fryderyk like a child who had abandoned and forgotten his mother. I never answered the letter.

It was important to Fryderyk to sort out his affaires befare he died, so he gave us careful instructions. He asked that all unfinished musical manuscripts in his portefolio must be destroyed, and that only completele pieces should be published. He asked that Mozart’s Requiem would be sung at his funeral. And he implored that his body would be cut open, so that he would not be buried alive, and that his heart would be brought back to Poland, where it belongs.

Delfina Potocka arrived from Nice the 15th of October to visit Fryderyk. He was moved by this gesture, and begged her to sing for him one last time. She obliged, and sang to him, accompanied by the piano that we rolled up by the bedroom door.

When the 16th came, Fryderyk asked again for music, so Princess Marcelina and Auguste Franchomme played him some Mozart. After they had finished, he asked them to play his own Sonata for Piano and Cello. But only after a few bars of this he began to suffocate, so they had to stop.

By now, most of the callers had gone, leaving only intimate friends. We spent the evening reciting litanies. Fryderyk was silent. Later, two doctors came to examine him. One of them took a candle and held it before Fryderyk’s face, who had become dark with suffocation. The doctor remarked that his senses had ceased to act. But when he asked Fryderyk if he was suffering, we quite distinctly heard his answer: ”No longer!“

The night came, and more people left, leaving only me, Princess Marcelina, Gutmann, Thomas Albrecht and Solange. The 16th became the 17th when midnight passed. It was silent. Around two o’clock in the morning, I had fallen asleep, but Fryderyk lay awake. Solange sat beside him, holding his hand.

”Don’t stay here, this will be ugly“, he suddenly said to her. ”You must not see it.“ He appeared to have a seizure, so the terrified Solange called Gutmann, who ran over and took Fryderyk in his arms. I woke. We wanted to give him a drink, but death prevented us.

”He passed away with his gaze fixed on me, he was hideous, I could see the tarnishing eyes in the darkness“, Solange later wrote. ”Oh, the soul had died too!“

Fryderyk Chopin, my dear brother, had passed away, after years of sickness and suffering. On the following day, the doctor came to carry out an autopsy, and Auguste Clésinger came to make Fryderyk’s death-mask. I was heartbroken; my world had fallen into darkness, but I stayed in Paris for several months in order to arrange his funeral and sort out his affaires. And when I finally returned to Poland, I brought Fryderyk’s heart with me home.

”The soul of an angel, cast down upon earth in a tortured body in order to accomplish some mysterious redemption“, was how Solange remembered him. ”Is it because his life was a thirty-nine-year agony that his music is so lofty, so sweet, so sublime?“ she wondered.

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did i… alignment card right?

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modern lgbt+ history edits    →  ( 1 / ? ? ) 

adam mickiewicz  → bisexual

delfina potocka  → bisexual

fryderyk chopin  → biromantic asexual

juliusz słowacki  → homoromantic asexual

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 Delfina Potocka, 1830s.:

  Delfina Potocka was born in Murowane Kuryłowce, Podolia (now Murovani Kurylivtsi, Murovani Kurylivtsi Raion, Vinnytsia oblast, Ukraine) in March 1807. She was the daughter of Stanisław Komar and Honorata Orłowska. In 1825 she married Count Mieczysław Potocki (thereby becoming a countess), with whom she had two daughters. Unhappy in her married life, she eventually divorced Potocki.[1]

After parting with her husband, Potocka went abroad, where she maintained close contacts with Chopin and with the Polish Romantic poet Count Zygmunt Krasiński.[1] Chopin wrote to a friend in Paris in November 1831 "Yesterday I had dinner at the home of Mrs Potocka, that pretty wife of Mieczysław"; she studied piano with him and the friendship continued throughout Chopin's life; two days before his death in 1849 she sang to him at his request an aria from the Dettingen Te Deum of Handel.[2] However, the supposed erotic correspondence between Chopin and Potocka, which Paulina Czernicka claimed to have discovered in Poland in the 1940s, has been proved to be a forgery.[3][4]

Potocka met Krasiński in Naples, Italy, on 24 December 1838 and soon became his beloved confidante, to whom he revealed his innermost thoughts, and for whom he wrote "Sen Cezary" ("Cezara's Dream," published 1840) and the Messianic poem "Przedświt" ("Dawn's Approach," published 1843).[5] Potocka was the great love of Krasiński's life and fully reciprocated his feelings. Their romance lasted to 1846, after which she remained his friend and muse. (In July 1843, Krasiński had married Countess Eliza Branicka.)

Potocka's friendships with Chopin and Krasiński are recorded in works that the two artists created in her honor, including poems by Krasiński and Chopin's Waltz in D-flat major, Op. 64—the so-called "Minute Waltz."[1]

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Penelope Wilton in “The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka: The Mystery of Chopin” (1999)

Penny plays a double role. She plays Paulina and her great-grandmother Paulina Potocka (but there aren´t that many scenes as Paulina).

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Closing the 1840s -

Top:  1849 Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna (?) by Carl Timoleon von Neff (Hermitage) 1085X1473 @72 492kj. The Hermitage lists this as "Portrait of a Young Woman." However Dru identified the sitter as Grand Princess Maria Mikhailovna in a posting to the  Alexander Palace Time Machine Discussion Forum of 27 September 2011 and another poster agreed with some doubt.

This work appeared to be unfinished, the background was not over-painted in an oval all around, although a guideline was made and much of the oval was completed. I filled in the unfinished background with Photoshop.

Second row left:  1849 Elizabeth A. Poletika (1832-1854), daughter of Idalia Poletika, in marriage Mordvinova by Vladimir Ivanovich Hau (location ?). From Wikimedia 1536X1973 @200 434kj.

Second row right:  1849 Madame Leon Reisener by Henri-François Riesener (Musée national Eugène-Delacroix - Paris, France). From pinterest.com/CardRichelieu/portrait/ 775X1200 @72 254kj.

Third row:  1849 Comtesse Charles d'Agoult, née Marie de Flavigny, and Her Daughter Claire d'Agoult by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (Morgan Library & Museum - New York City, New York, USA). Old image from unrecorded source 2214X2677 @300 2.4Mj.

Fourth row left:  1849 Countess Sofia Andreievna Bobrinskaia, née Shuvalov by Karl Brullov (Hermitage). From liveinternet.ru/users/4000579/post386885193 800X968 @72 224kj.

Fourth row right:  1849 Delfina Potocka by Paul Delaroche (location unknown to gogm) photo - Maciej Szczepańczyk (Mathiasrex). From Wikimedia 1143X1418 @72 2.9Mp.

Fifth row:  1849 Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, UK)> From Wikimedia; removed spots  & flaws & fixed edges w Pshop 1086X1700 @300 409kj. She was a Lady-in-Waiting to and close friend of Queen Victoria. Dunrobin Castle is the family seat of the Sutherland family,

Sixth row left:  1849 Dowager Queen Adelaide by Richard James Lane after Franz Xaver Winterhalter (British Mueum). From their Web site 1737X2500 @300 1.8Mj.

Sixth row right:  1849 Erzherzogin Sophie von Österreich, Prinzessin von Bayern by Josef Kreihuber (auctioned by Neumesiter). From their Web site 2407X3307 @300 2.1Mj.

Bottom:  1849 Comtesse de Bellefonds by Jean-Hégésippe Vettier (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux - Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France). From collections-musees.bordeaux.fr/ow4/mba/images/006-074-1559; fixed spots. bottom edge, & cracks w Pshop 820X1024 @72 246k.

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Zygmunt Krasiński (1812-1859).

Polish poet and dramatist.

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He was a Polish nobleman traditionally ranked with Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of Poland's Three National Bards — the trio of great Romantic poets who influenced national consciousness during the period of Poland's political bondage. His works dealt prophetically with the class conflict that would engender Russia’s October Revolution.

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The conflict of loyalty arising from his father’s support of Russian imperialism and his own desire for Poland’s independence occupies a central position in Krasiński’s thought.

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Krasiński’s reputation rests primarily on two tragic dramas. In Nieboska komedia (1835; The Undivine Comedy) he presents a future struggle between the masses and the privileged that represents the first literary expression of class war. Krasiński denies the validity of hatred as a source of righteous action.

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"Predawn" is his best-known poem, a nationalist poem which sees the Partitions of Poland as retribution for sins committed, and which predicts Poland's reappearance, as a world leader. Chopin set a poem by Krasiński as a song (see "Polish songs by Frédéric Chopin").

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He was married to Eliza Branicka and was the father of six children. He conducted a romance with Delfina Potocka, his muse, from 1836 to 1846.

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Famous works :

The Undivine Comedy

Irydion

Predawn

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Delfina Komar Potocka.

#romantyzm #biedny romantyzm #zygmunt krasiński #biedny zygmunt krasiński #biedny świat #czy ktoś ją lubi???

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this might be my most favorit piece by Chopin and as far as i know, this piece was made on behalf {or dedicated} to the Countess Delfina Potocka and here i am! dedicating this piece to my Jace William Harlow just because i love him and he deserves to be appreciated. whenever i listen to this piece, it brings me a joyful feeling which i always want to dance.. like the polka dance? will you dance with me, my darling? with this masterpiece playing along. only both of us, no one else, enjoying the proximity.