History Painting at the National Museum in Warsaw
The National Museum in Warsaw holds 55 History Painting works in this public-domain catalogue, dating from 1612 to 1898. The collection is led by Jan Matejko, Adam Frans van der Meulen and Ignacy Gierdziejewski.
Insurrection episode
Reception of the Jews, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland”
Tomyris ordering to immerse the head of Cyrus in a bowl of blood (Herodotus, Histories, I, 214)
Sea battle
Bakfark, lutenist of Queen Bona
Knight in armour
Candlesticks of Christianity, sketch
Władysław Jagiełło and Vytautas praying before the battle of Grunwald
Battle
Battle
Skirmish between the Poles and the Swedes during the Northern War (1700–1718)
Battle of the Pyramids, sketch
A battle scene
A battle scene
The Golden Age in Literature in the 16th c., from the series “History of Civilization in Poland”
A Cavalry Skirmish
Baptism of Lithuania, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland”
Influence of the university on the country, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland”
After the battle
The erection act of the University of Warsaw granted by Tsar Alexander I
Coronation of the First King, 1001 AD, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland”
Battle
Founding of the Academy, 1361–1399–1400 AD, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland”
Battle with the Turks
A battle scene
Battle on Vught Heath
Battle of Vienna, sketch
Battle
Zakhary Lyapunov's quarrel with the Tsar Vasili Shuysky
The First Parliament in Łęczyca, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland”
Władysław Herman blesses Bolesław the Wry-Mouthed before a war campaign
Defeat at Legnica, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland”
A war commissary, an officer and a transportation soldier
A battle scene
Power of Commonwealth at its Zenith, from the series “History of Civilization in Poland”
A battle scene
Battle of Christians against the Turks
Night after the battle of Legnica
Study of a horse's head for “Battle of Grunwald”
Episode from the Thirty Years' War
Lord deliver us from air, fire, war, famine and sudden death
Battle
Siege of Groeningen by Christian Bernard von Galen, bishop of Munster
After the battle
Battle of Lithuanians with the Teutonic knights
Battle of Somosierra
After the battle – The Swedes in Poland in 1655
Battle scene: Wincenty Krasiński receives the report from Kozietulski after the battle of Somosierra (copy, after Horace Vernet)
Victorious procession after the battle
Granting of the Constitution of the Duchy of Warsaw by Napoleon
Squire of Sobieski
A battle scene
Mohort – royal gift
A battle scene
La Bataille de Somosierra