The last known address of The Sale of Amulets
Siemiradzki’s large canvas hung in a Warsaw salon before the uprising. The house survives and the painting remains untraced.
A girl examines charms in The Sale of Amulets, a canvas that stands more than two metres high. Henryk Siemiradzki painted it in 1875 for Pavel Isieyev, a secretary at the Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg. By a 1919 exhibition in Warsaw the picture belonged to the banker and collector Leopold Kronenberg.
The canvas probably changed hands in the mid-1930s, when confectioner Mieczysław Broniewski acquired it. It hung at his home at 25 Mokotowska Street. The painting left that address briefly for the artist’s 1939 retrospective at the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts.
The wartime sequence remains partly conjectural. The loss catalogue suggests the painting was moved to the National Museum in Warsaw after war broke out and later went back to Mokotowska Street. It was probably looted with the contents of the house during or after the Warsaw Uprising. The catalogue gives no subsequent location.
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