Tablo with similarities of Czech rulers

Miniatures from the left - Bohemia [great-father], Step I., Step II.Libuše, Nezamysl, Mnata, Vojen, Vnislav, Křesomysl, Neklan, Hostivít, Bořivoj, Spytibrov I., Wrocław I, Václav, Boleslav I, Boleslav II.Boleslav III., Vladivoj, Jaromír, Oldřich, Břetislav I, Spyti, v II., Wrocław II., Konrád I., Břetislav II., Vladislav I., Soběslav I, Vladislav II., Jindřich Břetislav, Vladislav Jindřich, Přemysl I., Václav I., Přemysl II Otakar, Wenceslas II., Václav III., Jan Luxembourský, Charles IV., Václav IV.Sigismund of Luxembourg, Albrecht II. Habsburg, Ladislav Pohrobek, Jiří z Poděbrady, Vladislav II. Jagiellonian, Ludvík Jagellonský, Ferdinand I. Habsburg, Maxmilián II., Rudolf II., Matthias, Ferdinand II.Ferdinand IIIFerdinand IV, Leopold I., Josef I., Charles VI, Maria Theresa, Joseph II., Leopold II., Francis II. , Ferdinand V. The picture presenting the effigies of the rulers of Bohemia from the legendary great-father of Bohemia to Ferdinand V. (I.) Dobrotiva was created in this form at the time when the last depicted monarch (1835-1848) ruled. Birkhardt’s copper engravings were used for the five upper series, cut from Bohuslav Balbín’s book Historia de ducibus ac regibus Bohemiae (Prague 1735) and stuck on a strained canvas. Only one effigy was not used from the Birkhardt series, representing Přemysl Oráč. Five portraits of later rulers, which were not captured by Birkhardt’s cycle, were placed in the lowest row by a painter, who also collared (de facto overlaid) upper copper engraving portraits with oil paints. The six remaining medallions closing the lower row were left empty, as a reserve for future representatives of the state. We attribute the authorship of the painting to Antonín Machk, mainly on the basis of the stylish similarity of five domalled effigies (from Maria Theresa to Ferdinand V.) with minor similarities from Machk’s painted cycle of Czech rulers, which was created in about 1828-1835 and also ended with Ferdinand V. (today in NG). Especially portraits of Joseph II are comparable. and Ferdinand V. The painting is set in the original oak frame.