A Young Beauty
A Young Beauty c1865 by Italian Painter Eugen von Blaas (1843 – 1931); also known as Eugene de Blaas of the Academic Classicism Period. Though he often painted Venetian scenes; he also painted many portraits and religious works of art.
This is a splendid portrait of an attractive young Italian beauty with rich dark hair that is curly along the front and sides of her head and tied into a bun on the top back of her head.
She is looking to her right, into the far distance with a beautiful tranquil smile on her face as though she is in deep thought.
She is wearing a simple white ruffled like dress with a deep wide collar, a gold colored cloth necklace with embedded silver studs, and gold earrings.
She is posed against a slate blue wall with a little more than a side profile view, such that we can clearly see both of her eyes.
This is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a rolled canvas print online.
Info Below Derived From Wikipedia.org
Eugen von Blaas was born at Albano, near Rome, to a Tyrolean father and Italian mother. His father Karl, also a painter, was his teacher. His mother, Agnesina Auda, was a well-to-do Roman woman. The family moved to Venice when Karl became Professor at the Academy of Venice. He often painted scenes in Venice, but also portraits and religious paintings.
Among his works are La forma nuziale in sacrestia; La tombola in Campielo a Venezia; Una scena di burattini in un educanciatu; and La Ninetta. The art critic Luigi Chirtani, when the painting was displayed at the Mostra Nazionale di Venezia, described it as Beautiful, flattering, pretty, caressed, cleaned, polished, laundress in a painting by Mr. Blaas, the favorite portraitist of great Venetian aristocrats, dressed in gala satins, shining jewelry, hairstyles of the rich.
His colorful and rather theatrical period images of Venetian society, e.g. On the Balcony (1877; Private Collection), were quite different compared to delicate pastels and etchings of the courtyards, balcony and canals of modern Venice.
Eugene de Blaas’ paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy, Fine Art Society, New Gallery and Arthur Tooth and Sons Gallery in London, and also at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool