page_title: Józef Poniatowski Monument, Warsaw
section_title: The monument's return to Poland
hierarchical_section_title: Józef Poniatowski Monument, Warsaw / The monument's return to Poland
caption_attribution_description: Potocki Palac in Warsaw
context_page_description: The Prince Józef Poniatowski Monument in Warsaw is a monument currently located at 46/48 Krakowskie Przedmieście in the courtyard of the Presidential Palace. The statue depicts Prince Józef Poniatowski riding a horse and holding a sword in his right hand. The figure of the prince is modeled on the monument of Marcus Aurelius from the Roman Capitoline Hill.
context_section_description: The monument to Prince Józef Poniatowski returned to independent Poland in 1922, as part of the recovery of monuments and works of art under the Treaty of Riga. It originally stood in the courtyard of the Royal Castle, and from 1923, in Saxon Square, on a pedestal designed by Aleksander Bojemski in front of the Saxon Palace and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The unveiling ceremony for the monument was associated with the arrival and appointment of Ferdinand Foch as a Marshal of Poland.
  The monument was blown up on December 16, 1944 on the orders of German General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski.
  A new cast of the sculpture, made from 1948 to 1951, based on a model at the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen, was made by Poul Lauritz Rasmussen, and donated to Warsaw by the Kingdom of Denmark. On February 23, 1952, the monument was placed in front of the Old Orangery (Stara Pomarańczarnia) in Łazienki Park, and in 1965 it was moved to the courtyard of the Presidential Palace where it is today.
  The remains of the original sculpture, found in April 1945, in the ruins of the  Lilpop factory, are exhibited in the Freedom Park at the Warsaw Uprising Museum.
caption: The monument as seen from the windows of the Presidential Palace
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