Antoni Malczewski w Szwajcarii – źródła, ślady, tropy
Antoni Malczewski in Switzerland: Sources, Traces and Tropes

Summary/Abstract: The author or the paper makes an attempt at describing the contexts of Antoni Malczewski’s stay in Switzerland in 1818, focusing her attention on the sources that have to this day been neglected in archive, book, and press research tradition. It reconstructs the realia of Malczewski’s two hikes to Aiguille du Midi and to Mont Blanc, confronting the content of his letter to Marc-Auguste Pictet with the then guidebooks to the Alps. She also observes the echoes of Malczewski’s achievement, namely climbing the summit of the highest mountain in the Alps, sorting out the short passing references about this matter. By contrast, when discussing the consequences of the unfaithful translation of Malczewski’s journey account, the author points out that that he supervised the works of Étienne Seneg’s work on an important relief (bas relief) of the mountain range and traces the history of the object. Sikorska-Krystek additionally concentrates on the references to Malczewski made in guidebooks and accounts from journey, eagerly read in the 19th century, as well as in satirical commentaries to journeys in the Alps of that time.

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