Royal Sculpture Gallery

The Sculpture Gallery in the Old Orangery, alongside the Picture Gallery in
the Palace on the Isle and the Gallery of Prints in the White Pavilion,
is one of three principal galleries at the Royal Łazienki, which was
furnished according to the king's inventory of 1795. From the very
beginning of his reign, Stanisław August collected marble statues and
plaster copies of the most famous antique and early modern works of art.
Some of them were commissioned with a view to complementing the
ideology underlying the interior design in the royal residences, as in
the case of the Farnese Hercules and Belvedere Apollo in the Ballroom at
the Palace on the Isle or the statues of kings in the Rotunda - the
pantheon of Polish rulers.

However, the most numerous objects in the royal collection were the
sets of plaster casts - this collection of a didactic nature, according
to the 1795 inventory, included 563 works of art.