Predators+in+Polish+collections+of+paintings

====**The great jewel of the National Museum of the Czartoryski family in Cracow** is Lady with an Ermine, a painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The painting is one of only four female portraits painted by Leonardo, the others being the Mona Lisa, the portrait of Ginevra de' Benci and La belle ferronnière.====

====Lady with an Ermine is a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, from around 1489–1490. The subject of the portrait is identified as Cecilia Gallerani, and was probably painted at a time when she was the mistress of Lodovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, and Leonardo was in the service of the Duke.====

====The painting is one of only four female portraits painted by Leonardo, the others being the Mona Lisa, the portrait of Ginevra de' Benci and La belle ferronnière. It is displayed by the Czartoryski Museum, Kraków, Poland and is cited in the museum's guide as the first truly modern portrai.====



**Few examples of Polish painters and Their paintings **


 * Alfred Jan Maksymilian Wierusz-Kowalski** (11th October 1849 Suwałki, 16th February 1915 in Monachium) – polish painter.



Tadeusz Rybkowski was born in Kielce in 1848 and he died in 1926 in Lviv. Since 1878 traveled to Italy and Germany In 1893 he settled in Lviv. He was professor at the State Industrial School, ran a private school of painting for women. He did illustrations for Polish and foreign periodicals.



And Others

//Tadeusz Rybkowski (Kielce 1848 - Lwów 1926) //