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| Portrait of Stanislas by Jean-François Foisse dit Brabant (1708-1763) Acquired by the Musée du Château de Lunéville in 2016. |
Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland and latterly Duke of Lorraine and Bar, was one of those marvellous, larger-than-life 18th-century characters. His character seems to span the whole gamut of 18th century sensibilities, from the remote central European worlds of Baroque piety, mechanical marvels and Court dwarves to the brightly-lit rationalism of the philosophes.
