Walery PŁAUSZEWSKI (Polish / French 1833–1908)
Polish-French painter, draftsman and designer. Born in 1833 in Vesoul, France, into a family of Polish political émigrés; died in 1908.
The son of Piotr Płauszewski, a Polish nobleman exiled to France after the November Uprising of 1830–1831, Walery was educated at the Polish School of Batignolles in Paris, where he received the school’s highest award for drawing and landscape. He later studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme, acquiring the academic precision and refined technique characteristic of the French academic tradition.
After completing his studies, Płauszewski worked as a designer of ornamental patterns for French embroidery, textiles and decorative arts. He also returned to the Polish School in Paris as professor of drawing.
In 1892, he received a commission from the French state to produce a large-scale copy of Isidore Pils’s Rouget de Lisle Singing “La Marseillaise” for the First Time. This work is preserved in the collections of the Centre national des arts plastiques and is displayed at the Museum of the French Revolution at the Château de Vizille.
Płauszewski regularly exhibited in Paris, including at the Salon and the Exposition Universelle. His paintings, including The Chosen One and Atala au tombeau, have appeared at major international auction houses.
His work combines French academic training with refined draftsmanship and meticulous attention to costume, textile and historical detail. Alongside history painting, he produced portraits and graphic works of high technical quality.
The son of Piotr Płauszewski, a Polish nobleman exiled to France after the November Uprising of 1830–1831, Walery was educated at the Polish School of Batignolles in Paris, where he received the school’s highest award for drawing and landscape. He later studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme, acquiring the academic precision and refined technique characteristic of the French academic tradition.
After completing his studies, Płauszewski worked as a designer of ornamental patterns for French embroidery, textiles and decorative arts. He also returned to the Polish School in Paris as professor of drawing.
In 1892, he received a commission from the French state to produce a large-scale copy of Isidore Pils’s Rouget de Lisle Singing “La Marseillaise” for the First Time. This work is preserved in the collections of the Centre national des arts plastiques and is displayed at the Museum of the French Revolution at the Château de Vizille.
Płauszewski regularly exhibited in Paris, including at the Salon and the Exposition Universelle. His paintings, including The Chosen One and Atala au tombeau, have appeared at major international auction houses.
His work combines French academic training with refined draftsmanship and meticulous attention to costume, textile and historical detail. Alongside history painting, he produced portraits and graphic works of high technical quality.
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