Portrait of Michał Wandalin Mniszech

Executed in oil on canvas, the portrait employs a restrained palette of deep shadows against a muted background, allowing the figure’s attire and facial features to emerge with clarity. Bacciarelli’s handling reflects Rococo elegance softened by emerging Neoclassical restraint, evident in the precise rendering of textures such as lace and metal.

Bacciarelli, who served as a court painter for the Polish‑Lithuanian monarchy, produced this likeness during his tenure in Warsaw. The painting entered the National Museum in Kraków in the early twentieth century, where it remains on display as part of the museum’s holdings of late‑eighteenth‑century portraiture.