Jan Matejko · 1891
The Constitution of 3 May 1791
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A dense crowd surges around Stanisław August Poniatowski, Poland's last king, and the leaders of the Great Sejm as they celebrate the adoption of the 3 May Constitution, banners and a tower rising behind them. Royal Castle, Warsaw.
Up to 43.1 × 24 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Constitution of 3 May 1791
The Constitution of 3 May 1791 was painted between January and October 1891 to mark the centenary of the Constitution, and is one of Matejko's last works (he died in November 1893). It shows a crowd greeting the adoption of the Constitution, with Poland's last king Stanisław August Poniatowski, the Marshals of the Great Sejm and other leading figures; some twenty individuals have been identified by historians. The painting was displayed in Lwów until 1920, then moved to Kraków, hidden during the Second World War and later moved to Warsaw, where it hangs in the Royal Castle.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jan Matejko
Jan Alojzy Matejko was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. His works include large scale oil paintings such as Stańczyk (1862), Rejtan (1866), Union of Lublin (1869), Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873), or Battle of Grunwald (1878). He was the author of numerous portraits, a gallery of Polish monarchs in book form, and murals in St. Mary's Basilica, Kraków. He is considered by many as the most celebrated Polish painter, and sometimes as the "national painter" of Poland.
All Jan Matejko prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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