Portrait Of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Empress Elisabeth of Austria c1865 by German Painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805 – 1873), a Neoclassicism and Romanticism portrait artist of the 19th century.
This portrait depicts Empress Elisabeth in a beautiful and graceful ballroom gown, posing by a large column adorned with flowers which makes up part of a gate way onto a large landscape as evening approaches.
The sky is a rich hue of dark blue and light blues, with a spattering of aqua blues that blend in with an expanse white and blue clouds and a beautiful blue ocean below.
Portrait Of Empress Elisabeth of Austria is a retouched digital art reproduction of a public domain image that is available for purchase as a canvas print online.
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter was born in the small village of Menzenschwand, (now part of Sankt Blasien), in Germany’s Black Forest in the Electorate of Baden, on April 20, 1805.
He was the sixth child of Fidel Winterhalter (1773 – 1863), a farmer and resin producer in the village, and his wife Eva Meyer (1765 – 1838), a member of a long established Menzenschwand family.
His father was of peasant stock and was a powerful influence in his life. Of the eight brothers and sisters, only four survived infancy.
Throughout his life Franz Xaver remained very close to his family, in particular to his brother Hermann (1808 – 1891), who was also a painter.
After attending school at a Benedictine monastery in St. Blasien, Winterhalter left Menzenschwand in 1818 yn de âldens fan 13 to study drawing and engraving.
He trained as a draughtsman and lithographer in the workshop of Karl Ludwig Schüler (1785 – 1852) in Freiburg im Breisgau. Yn 1823, yn de âldens fan 18, he went to Munich, sponsored by the industrialist Baron von Eichtal (1775 – 1850).
Yn 1825, he was granted a stipend by Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (1763 – 1830) and began a course of study at the Academy of Arts in Munich with Peter von Cornelius (1783 – 1867), whose academic methods made him uncomfortable.
Winterhalter found a more congenial mentor in the fashionable portraitist Joseph Karl Stieler (1781 – 1858). During this time, he supported himself working as lithographer.
Winterhalter entered court circles when in 1828 hy waard tekenmaster fan Sophie Margravine fan Baden, te Karlsruhe.
Syn kâns om him bûten súdlik Dútslân te fêstigjen kaam binnen 1832 doe't er nei Itaalje reizgje koe, mei de stipe fan gruthartoch Leopold fan Baden.
Yn Rome komponearre er romantyske sjenrescènes op 'e wize fan Louis Leopold Robert en hechte er him ta oan 'e rûnte fan 'e direkteur fan 'e Frânske Akademy, Horace Vernet.
By syn weromkomst yn Karlsruhe skildere er portretten fan de gruthartoch Leopold fan Baden en syn frou, en waard beneamd ta skilder oan it gruthertoglike hof.
Dochs, hy ferliet Baden en ferhuze nei Frankryk, dêr't syn Italjaanske sjenre sêne Il dolce Farniente luts oanjefte by de Salon fan 1836, en in jier letter wûn er lof foar syn skilderij Il Decameron; beide skilderijen binne akademyske komposysjes yn 'e styl fan Rafael.
Yn de Salon fan 1838 hy stelde in portret út fan de Prins fan Wagram mei syn jonge dochter; en koart dêrnei wie syn karriêre as portretskilder fêst, doe't er yn datselde jier Louise Marie fan Orleans skildere, Keninginne fan de Belgen, en har soan.
It wie nei alle gedachten troch dit skilderij dat Winterhalter ûnder de oandacht kaam fan Maria Amalia fan de Twa Sisyljes, Keninginne fan it Frânsk, mem fan de keninginne fan de Belgen.