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THE BIG BEDROOM
The men’s big bedroom reminds us of George Christian Lobkowicz, a well known and a successful sportsman and an automobile racer who died in 1932 in his Bugatti car on the racetrack AVUS in Berlin. His portrait is on the stand in the front part of the room. In the glass showcase there are above all his trophies and small objects, mainly from rowing and automobile races. The painter A.de Courten is the author of George´s father Frederic Lobkowicz’s child portrait.
The most outstanding is a large portrait of one of Mělník owners, Humprecht Count Czernin, created around 1668. The work is by the Bohemian painter Karel Škréta who belongs among the first Bohemian Baroque greatest artists.
The family portrait next to the entrance to the study features the founder of the Lobkowicz branch in Mělník, August Anton Eusebius with his wife Marie Ludmila, Countess Czernin and their children. They had 20 children all together but only 3 of them lived up to adulthood. It is the only son and heir Anton Isidor, born as the 17th child who is pictured here, at the background there is a scenery of Escorial in Spain where August Anton Eusebius served as an ambassador.
Next to the window there is a sketch of the altar picture “Crucification” by the Italian painter Melchior Gherardini.
The room is furnished mostly with Baroque furniture: the bed decorated with inlays and carvings has a motif of Madonna on the headboard. The model of the vessel is from Holland from around the 18th century.
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13.08.2005
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