Stanisław Chlebowski

Stanisław Chlebowski (1835–1884) was a Polish painter. He was a renowned specialist in Oriental themes and history painting.

Biography Chlebowski was born to Polish parents in the village of (Pokutyńce), which was then in the Ushitsky Uyezd and Podolian Governorate of the Russian Empire and is now Khmelnytskyi Raion, Ukraine. The village and its region once constituted the easternmost periphery of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth prior to the Partitions of Poland at the end of the 18th century. Following the partitions, the area was annexed by Russia.

Chlebowski initially learned drawing in Grekov Odessa Art school. Between 1853 and 1859, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, and then on a scholarship for six years in Paris as the pupil of the French Orientalist painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. Chlebowski traveled to Spain, Italy, Germany, and Belgium. His first success was selling his painting Joanne d’Arc in Amiens Prison to Napoleon III of France.

In the years 1864-1876 Chlebowski was the master painter under the service of Sultan Abdülaziz and took up residence in Constantinople. The National Museum in Kraków houses some of his other important Orientalist works such as .

Selected works Entry of Sultan Mehmed II to Constantinople at the Gate of the City (1873, ) Turkish sentry (1880) The time of prayer Sultan Bayezid in captivity of Tamerlane (1878)