Infanta Luisa Fernanda de Bourbon, Duquesa frá Montpensier
Infanta Luisa Fernanda de Bourbon, Duquesa de Montpensier c1851 eftir spænskan málara Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (1815 – 1894); einnig steinþurrkur, rithöfundur og stjórnmálamaður.
This is an elegant portrait of Luisa Fernanda de Borbón (1832 – 1897) the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand VII (1784 – 1833) of Spain and is fourth wife Maria Christina (1806 – 1878) of the Two Sicilies, the queen-regent, who also happened to be his niece.
She is posed in a large lavish room standing on a colorfully patterned red carpet, which has in the background to the left of the image, a large wall mirror with gold accent gilding, that is positioned over an elaborately carved gold gilded table that has on top of it a decorative gold box, a beautiful blue spherical vase with a floral gold stand containing a bouquet of flowers.
In the middle wall panel is more decorative gilded wood work and a sculpted face high up; and on the last wall panel that has more decorative wood work is a decorative wall shelf with a blue vase on it and below that a decorative love with a gilded wood border.
Luisa is shown wearing a full length white embroidered lace gown that is complemented by a gold tail like trailing material with silver floral embroidered details and pearls, that flows from the back of her dress at the waist and wraps around to her right side on the floor.
She has a royal blue, white and pink sash that carries from her right shoulder down to the left side of her waist with an attached blue and white ribbon hanging from her left side.
On her left hand which is positioned near the left side of her chest has a white silk evening glove on to and sheer handkerchief tucked into it; while her right hand holds the other evening clove to the right side of her body.
On her black hair, hang from the back she has a silk white lace kerchief that matches her dress; and around her head she is wearing a tiara comprised of silver and gold, with ruby gemstone.
The tiara is complemented with earrings, a necklace, a bracelet, a large brooch on the front of her dress and two smaller ones on the shoulders of the dress that bear the same and similar pattern.
Infanta Luisa Fernanda de Bourbon, Duquesa de Montpensier is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a Málmur, akrýl, wood, strigaprentun á netinu.
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Federico fæddist í Róm af José de Madrazo y Agudo (1781 – 1859), málari og fyrrverandi forstöðumaður Prado safnsins; og var hluti af línu frábærra listamanna, sem innihélt afa hans móðurmegin; Tadeusz Kuntze (1733 – 1793), pólskur málari.
Aðrir meðlimir þessarar skapandi fjölskyldu eru bræður hans, sem voru listmálarinn Luis de Madrazo (1825 – 1897), Pedro de Madrazo (1816 – 1898), listfræðingur og Juan de Madrazo (1829 – 1880), arkitekt.
Meðal barna hans Federico voru listmálarinn Ricardo de Madrazo (1851 – 1917), Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (1841 – 1920) og Cecilia de Madrazo y Garreta (1846 – 1932) sem giftist hinum mikla austurlenska listamanni, María Fortuny (1838 – 1874).
Madrazo fjölskyldunni hefur verið lýst sem einni mikilvægustu málaraætt spænskrar málaraættar á 19. öld.; sem var algjörlega ráðandi í málaralist á Spáni á því tímabili.
Federico byrjaði að taka listræna kennslu hjá föður sínum, og á meðan hann var enn í Konunglegu akademíunni í San Fernando, málaði sína fyrstu mynd The Resurrection of Christ c1829; sem var keypt af Kristínu drottningu.
Fljótlega eftir það málverk skapaði hann Akkilles í tjaldi sínu, og eftir það kynnt fyrir Akademíunni The Continence of Scipio, sem tryggði honum inngöngu sem félagsmaður “fyrir verðleika”.
Three years later Federico left for Paris where he studied on the Franz Winterhalter and painted portraits of Baron Taylor and Ingres (a French Neoclassical Painter).
Í 1837 he received a commission to create a painting for the gallery at Versailles, for which he painted “Godfrey de Bouillon proclaimed King of Jerusalem”; soon afterwards he returned to Rome and took on projects creating portraits for the Spanish Aristocracy.