Colonel Königsfels Teaching Prince Poniatowski to Ride
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Colonel Königsfels Teaching Prince Poniatowski to Ride (1773) by Bernardo Bellotto
Colonel Königsfels Teaching Prince Poniatowski to Ride is a 1773 oil on canvas painting by Bernardo Bellotto, now in the National Museum, Warsaw.[1]
It shows Prince Józef Poniatowski on a grey Lipizzan executing a pesade, wearing the uniform of the royal horse guards of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. To the right Colonel Piotr Königsfels, holding a staff and a tricorn, gives the sign for the pesade. In the background is an arch bearing the Ciolek-Poniatowski coat of arms.
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- ^ "Catalogue entry" (in Polish).
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