Description

In the interwar period, there was a general opinion that the woman on the reverse was the Queen Jadwiga (the first female monarch of the Kingdom of Poland, reigning from 16 October 1384 until her death), since the artist Antoni Madeyski also made the sarcophagus of the Queen for the Wawel Cathedral.

According to the traditions of the artist's family, he immortalized in this image an idealized portrait of his niece Wanda Syrokomskaya-Petraźyckaya. According to others, the model was Janina Żółtowska (who visited Madeyski in the Roman workshop before the First World War), later the wife of Ludwik Hieronim Morstin. In 1923 he was a Polish military attaché in Rome, a friend of Antoni Madeyski.