Katarzyna Branicka

{{Short description|Polish noblewoman}}

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{{Infobox noble|

| name =Katarzyna Branicka

| image =Winterhalter_Katarzyna_Potocka.png

| caption =Katarzyna Potocka by Franz Winterhalter

| spouse =Adam Józef Potocki

| issue =Róża Potocka
Artur Władysław Potocki
Zofia Potocka
Maria Potocka
Wanda Potocka
Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki
Anna Maria Potocka

| CoA =Korczak coat of arms

|tenure=|predecessor=|successor=| noble family =Branicki

| father =Władysław Grzegorz Branicki

| mother =Róża Potocka

| birth_date ={{birth date|1825|12|10|df=y}}

| birth_place =Luboml, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine)

| death_date ={{Death date and age|1907|9|20|1825|12|10|df=y}}

| death_place =Krzeszowice, Grand Duchy of Kraków, Austria-Hungary (now in Poland)

|}}

File:POL COA Korczak.svg

Countess Katarzyna Potocka, née Branicka Korczak coat of arms (eng. Catherine Potocka) (10 December 1825 – 20 September 1907) was a Polish noblewoman and art collector. Through her paternal grandmother, Aleksandra Branicka, she was a putative great-grandchild of Catherine the Great.{{cite book | title = Polish Biographical Dictionary | volume = 2 | publisher = Polish Academy of Learning – Skład Główny w Księgarniach Gebethner i Wolff | place = Kraków | date = 1936 | chapter = Branicka Aleksandra| author = Henryk Stanisław Mościcki | pages = 393–396|language=pl}} Reprint: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Kraków 1989, {{ISBN|8304032910}} She had two sisters and four brothers, the eldest of whom was the French exile, financier and philanthropist, Count Xavier Branicki.Władysław Konopczyński, "Franciszek Ksawery Branicki", Dictionary of National Biography, vol. II, Kraków: Polish Academy of Learning – Skład Główny w Księgarniach Gebethner i Wolff. 1936, p. 398.

She married Count Adam Józef Potocki on 26 October 1847 in Dresden. Chopin dedicated his Waltz in A-flat major to her. It was the last waltz by Chopin to be published in his lifetime.

She was said to have been a great beauty and the subject of several portrait artists, including in 1854, the German painter, Franz Winterhalter.