This portrait of Queen Jadwiga by Polish nominal painter Jan Matejko is the first objective recreation of the Queen's face, based on his own detailed study of her skull made by permission of the Catholic Church during the 1887 exhumation of the Queen's remains in Krakow, Poland. For further information about the exhumation purpose and names of official wittnesses see
http://www.kryminalistyka.fr.pl/forensic_groby_jadwiga.php
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Jan Matejko: English: Portrait of Queen Jadwiga of Poland.
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