Delfina Potocka

[1] After parting with her husband, Potocka went abroad, where she maintained close contacts with Chopin and with the Polish Romantic poet Count Zygmunt Krasiński.

[1] Chopin wrote to a friend in Paris in November 1831: "Yesterday I had dinner at the home of Mrs. Potocka, that pretty wife of Mieczysław".

She studied piano with him, and their friendship continued throughout Chopin's life; two days before his death in 1849, at his request, she sang for him an aria from Handel's Dettingen Te Deum.

[3][4] Potocka met Krasiński in Naples, Italy, on 24 December 1838 and soon became his beloved confidante, to whom he revealed his innermost thoughts, and for whom he wrote "Sen Cezary" ("Cezara's Dream", published 1840) and the Messianic poem, "Przedświt" ("Predawn", published 1843).

[5] Potocka was the great love of Krasiński's life and fully reciprocated his feelings.