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Portrait of Jan Leszczyński, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, private collection https://t.co/6DZWP7Op5v #wikidata #digitalart #pastel (Palette: #MarioSprite) 🖌🎨
Portrait of Jan Leszczyński, Robespierre, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, private collection https://t.co/P7NRF5xVqk #wikidata #digitalart #pastel (Palette: #CyanBlackPurpleGrey) 🖌🎨
When Augustus II of Poland dies in 1733, the question of succession comes up. The Sejm elects the French candidate Stanislaus Leszczyński (Louis XV’s father-in-law), but he is overthrown by the eastern powers in favor of Augustus of Saxony—the Maidan Revolution!
#OTD in 1677, Stanisław Leszczyński, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and later Duke of Lorraine and Bar was born. He died 88 years later after a freak accident during which his silk attire caught fire while the he was asleep near a fireplace at the Castle of Lunéville
Born #OnThisDay in 1677: #StanisławLeszczyński (1677-1766), King of Poland & Grand Duke of Lithuania as #StanislausI
Portrait by #JeanBaptistevanLoo (1684-1745), 1727
#Leszczyński
Stanisław Leszczyński of Poland abdicated #onthisday in 1736. #twitterstorians