Portrait of Aleksandra née Lubomirska, Wife of Stanisław Potocki (1758–1831)

Aleksandra née Lubomirska, Wife of Stanisław Potocki (1758–1831), is the subject of this 1780 portrait at the National Museum in Kraków. She is a different Aleksandra Lubomirska from the 1779 Wilanów Melpomene portrait — demonstrating how closely intermarried the Polish magnate families were and how several related women sat for Batoni in similar years. Stanisław Potocki was a leading Polish Enlightenment figure, politician, and art collector, and his wife's portrait by Batoni was a mark of the family's cultural ambitions in the final decade before the partitions that would erase Poland's independent statehood. The National Museum in Kraków holds multiple Batoni Polish portraits, making it a key repository for understanding the painter's relationship with Central European aristocracy.

Oil on canvas in Batoni's late portrait manner: assured composition, warm but slightly subdued palette appropriate to a formal society portrait, and the precise face modelling that had become his signature across fifty years of practice. Polish aristocratic dress at this date combined French fashion with national elements.