request for info

[Andrew M. Drozd]

Dear Seelangers:
    A colleague in Spanish has come across the following and would like
more information on the woman in the painting. If anyone can provide
more details, please reply to me off-list and I will forward it to him.
Thanks,
Andrew
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The note refers to the "princesa Poniatowsky" the wife of Josef
Poniatowsky (1763-1813), a Polish general and marshall of Napoleon who,
being surrounded by an enemy army, charged into the Leipzig river on
horseback where he perished. Evidently there is a painting of this
woman (not the horseback bit).

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Andrew M. Drozd
Associate Professor of Russian
adrozd at bama.ua.edu

Department of Modern Languages and Classics
Box 870246
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0246

tel. (205) 348-5720
fax. (205) 348-2042

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