Women taking care of their toilet

Pompeian style painting „Women getting ready” This painting, from the former collection of the Lubomirscy family, by an unknown painter from the 19th century, depicts a genre scene – four women helping themselves mutually, arranging their clothes and hair in an antique interior, beside them, on a table, an oval mirror and „feminine” utensils. The painting is missing large fragment at the top, on the right. This is a copy of a painting discovered at a house overflown with lava and buried in volcanic ash, from Herculaneum. The explosion of Vesuvius took place in the year 79 AD, and both covered cities, Pompeii and Herculaneum, were discovered in the 1780s; since then, painting referred to as being in Pompeian style, became very popular among fashionable aristocracy. Four styles of Pompeian painting were distinguished between. Naturally, ”apart from these styles” so to speak, painting did develop that depicted still life to decorate dining rooms, made up of birds, fruit, fish or vessels of water. Beside these, one sees portraits of house inhabitants painted directly on the walls. The painting from Łańcut, ordered by duchess Lubomirska, is a decoration of the Chinese Apartment in the first floor of the castle, or actually the Pompeian Room at this apartment..