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Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture .
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A rumor has retrospectively suggested that the models present in this painting had also served as models in another work by Winterhalter, a little earlier, Florinda (Royal Collection, 1852), which uses the same composition. This comparison did not fail to cause scandal because the women are represented naked in this last work.
Winterhalter not only painted the official portraits of the British royal house but also dedicated himself to producing private images, as is the case with this work that was commissioned as a surprise gift from Queen Victoria to her husband Prince Albert on the occasion of his twenty-fourth birthday. Albert well appreciated the portrait.
Elisabeth Hermine Winterhalter (17 December 1856, in Munich – 13 February 1952, in Hofheim am Taunus) was a German gynecologist, surgeon, feminist and patron of the arts. She was one of the first female doctors and the first female surgeon in Germany.
Winterhalter opted for a daring portrait, unusual in his oeuvre, both in conception and format. [1] She appears reclined on a low Turkish sofa on a veranda overlooking a lush tropical landscape, possibly the Wittgenstein palace in the Crimea, even though the portrait was painted in Paris. Her pose is reminiscent of harem scenes and odalisque.