Who painted “Rejtan”?

“Rejtan” was painted by Jan Matejko in 1866. Where to see it: Royal Castle in Warsaw.

What to look for

Jan Matejko: huge, crowded scenes from Polish history, theatrical gestures, rich costumes and dense detail.

Jan Alojzy Matejko (24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history. Wikipedia

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“Stańczyk”, 1862
“Battle of Grunwald”, 1878
“Prussian Homage”, 1879
“Constitution of May 3, 1791”, 1891
“Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God”, 1873
“Skarga's Sermon”, 1864
“The Hanging of the Sigismund bell at the Cathedral Tower in 1521 in Kraków”, 1874
“Stephen Báthory at Pskov”, 1872