Portrait of Stanisław Kostka Potocki, 304 × 218 cm (119.68 × 85.83 in) Oil on canvas, 1781, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie
The Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki is a 1780 equestrian portrait of the Polish patron, politician and writer Stanisław Kostka Potocki by the French painter Jacques-Louis David. It was painted in Rome when the artist and subject met during David's stay at the Villa Medici after winning the first prize for painting in the Prix de Rome, and chronologically after his Saint Roch interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken and before Belisarius begging for alms. Its equestrian format is owed to influences from Rubens.
It was first owned by Potocki (who displayed it in the palace at Wilanów) before passing to the Branicki family in 1892. During the Second World War it was looted by the German forces, then passed into Soviet Russian hands after the war, before being repatriated to Poland in 1956. It is now on show in the Wilanów Palace Museum in Warsaw.
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