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The Winterhalter Catalogue. Franz Xaver Winterhalter: Works 1861-1865, WordPress (English) 2155 R Franz Xaver Winterhalten I 1805-1873 Empress Elisabeth of Austria I 1865 Kunsthistorisches Museum mit MVK. ÖTM 2009 I 1028, Flickr (English) Franz Xaver Winterhalter: The Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Fashion History Timeline (English) Bpk-ID ...
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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Herzog-Max-Palais in Munich where she was born. Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie was born on 24 December 1837 in the Herzog-Max-Palais in Munich, Bavaria.She was the third child and second daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, the half-sister of King Ludwig I of Bavaria.
The composition, incorporating many characters, recalls other paintings by Winterhalter, like The Decameron (1837), one of the painter's first successes. In these two paintings, the landscape forms a simple decor placed behind the characters, as on a theater stage.
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.
Winterhalter follows the examples from the 18th century when such a costume was more common and worn at costume balls. [3] [4] Winterhalter made at least three portraits of Countess Potocka in the period 1854 to 1858. The whereabouts of the third portrait is unknown and it has presumably been lost. The second is also in Warsaw.