Empress Carlota of Mexico
Empress Carlota of Mexico (nee Princess Charlotte of Belgium) c1850s by German Painter Hermann Winterhalter (1808 – 1891); younger brother of the portrait painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805 – 1873).
This beautiful portrait of the young Empress Carlota is set with her standing or possibly sitting in front of a textured multi-colored wall.
She is presented in three quarter view facing to the left of the viewer, looking off into the distance with a minute smile on her face.
She is wearing a white dress with ruffled trim along its borders, a green embroidered sheer shawl and on top of that a black embroidered kerchief.
Placed withing her black hair is a large red flower, and two smaller red flowers with green leaves that are attached to there stems.
She is also wearing a set of earrings that are composed of a round pearl at the top and a tear drop pearl on the bottom; that compliment the pearl necklace around her neck and the pearl pin that holds the ends of her black kerchief to the chest portion of her dress.
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Hermann Winterhalter was born in the small village of Menzenschwand, (nyní součástí Sankt Blasien), v německém Černém lese v Bádenském kurfiřtství, v dubnu 20, 1805.
He was the seventh child of Fidel Winterhalter (1773 – 1863), farmář a výrobce pryskyřice v obci, a jeho manželky Evy Meyerové (1765 – 1838), člen dlouho zavedené rodiny Menzenschwand.
His father was of peasant stock and was a powerful influence in his life making him follow in his older brother Franz Winterhalter footsteps whom Hermann was very close to. Z osmi bratrů a sester, pouze čtyři přežili dětství.
Hermann began his artistic career, when he was first trained as a lithographer (Lithography is a method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by German author and actor Alois Senefelder (1771 – 1834) as a cheap method of publishing theatrical works.).
From there he later went on to study painting in Munich, Germany and Rome, Itálie; after which he moved to Paris, France where he worked with his brother Franz and exhibited at the Salon from 1838 – 1841, 1847 a 1869.
In th 1850s Hermann independently started a small portrait practice of his own, creating respected works such as Young Girl from Ariccia and the portrait of his Parisian patron Nicolas-Louis Planat de la Faye.
After the fall of the Second French Empire (which was the 18-year Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from January 14, 1852 to September 4, 1870, between the Second Republic and Third Republic, of France.); Hermann a jeho bratr Franz se rozhodli odejít do Badenu; historické území v jižním Německu a severním Švýcarsku, na obou stranách horního Rýna.
Kde Franz zemřel 1873; zatímco Hermann téměř 20 více let, zemřel v únoru 24, 1891 v Karlsruhe – druhé největší město německé spolkové země Bádensko-Württembersko.