Portrait of Izabela née Lubomirska, Wife of Ignacy Potocki (1755–1783)

Izabela née Lubomirska, Wife of Ignacy Potocki (1755–1783), was painted by Batoni in 1780 at the National Museum in Kraków. She died just three years after this portrait was completed, at age twenty-eight — making the painting an unexpectedly premature memorial. Ignacy Potocki was a leading figure of the Polish Enlightenment, a constitutional reformer who would later co-author the Constitution of 3 May 1791. His young wife's portrait by Batoni was part of the family's cultural program connecting Warsaw's reformist elite to Roman artistic prestige. The National Museum in Kraków's group of Potocki-Lubomirska Batoni portraits represents one of the most coherent surviving records of his Polish aristocratic clientele.

Oil on canvas in Batoni's late portrait manner at the time he was in his early seventies. The twenty-five-year-old sitter would receive his most luminous treatment. Polish aristocratic dress at this date blended French fashions with national elements — pearl accessories, distinctive hairstyles — giving this portrait documentary value alongside its artistic qualities.