Portrait Of A Lady In Black
Portrait Of A Lady In Black by German Painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805 – 1873); known for his portraits of mid nineteenth century royalty and older brother of German painter Hermann Fidel Winterhalter (1808 – 1891).
This is an elegant portrait of an attractive young raven haired brunette standing against blue sky with white clouds; with a portion of a tree on her left side.
She is standing by a large square pedestal that has a large urn on it, that is decorated with sculpted handles that have a pair of male faces on them.
The young lady is a wearing a full length off shoulder black fluffy dress with long sleeves and tight wrist cuffs.
In her right hand which is resting on the pedestal is an embroidered white silk handkerchief; while in her left hand she is holding flowers by there stems along with a fur tube that wraps around her back and right arm, being covered by her embroidered scarf that is resting on her shoulders and tied at the front.
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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.
Fad a bheatha dh ’fhan Franz Xaver gu math faisg air a theaghlach, gu sònraichte dha bhràthair Hermann (1808 – 1891), a bha cuideachd na pheantair.
Às deidh dha a dhol dhan sgoil aig manachainn Bhenedictine ann an St.. Blasien, Dh ’fhàg Winterhalter Menzenschwand a-steach 1818 aig aois 13 to study drawing and engraving.
Rinn e trèanadh mar neach-dealbhaidh agus lithographer ann am bùth-obrach Karl Ludwig Schüler (1785 – 1852) ann am Freiburg im Breisgau. Ann an 1823, aig aois 18, chaidh e gu Munich, le taic bhon neach-gnìomhachais Baron von Eichtal (1775 – 1850).
Ann an 1825, chaidh stìpean a thoirt dha le Ludwig I., Grand Duke of Baden (1763 – 1830) agus thòisich e air cùrsa sgrùdaidh aig Acadamaidh nan Ealan ann am Munich còmhla ri Peter von Cornelius (1783 – 1867), bha na dòighean acadaimigeach aige ga fhàgail mì-chofhurtail.
Lorg Winterhalter comhairliche nas congenial anns an dealbhadair fasanta Eòsaph Karl Stieler (1781 – 1858). Rè na h-ùine seo, thug e taic dha fhèin ag obair mar lithographer.
Chaidh Winterhalter a-steach do chearcaill cùirte nuair a bha e a-staigh 1828 thàinig e gu bhith na mhaighstir dealbhaidh gu Sophie Margravine à Baden, at Karlsruhe.
Thàinig an cothrom aige e fhèin a stèidheachadh taobh a-muigh ceann a deas na Gearmailt 1832 nuair a bha e comasach dha siubhal dhan Eadailt, le taic bho Grand Duke Leopold à Baden.
Anns an Ròimh rinn e seallaidhean gnè romansach ann an dòigh Louis Léopold Robert agus cheangail e e fhèin ri cearcall stiùiriche Acadamaidh na Frainge, Horace Vernet.
Nuair a thill e gu Karlsruhe, pheant e dealbhan de Grand Duke Leopold à Baden agus a bhean, agus chaidh ainmeachadh mar pheantair don chùirt grand-ducal.
A dh'aindeoin sin, he left Baden and move to France, far an do tharraing an sealladh gnè Eadailteach Il dolce Farniente fios aig Salon of 1836, and a year later he won praise for his painting Il Decameron; both of these paintings are academic compositions in the style of Raphael.
In the Salon of 1838 he exhibited a portrait of the Prince of Wagram with his young daughter; and soon after that his career as a portrait painter was secured, when in the same year he painted Louise Marie of Orleans, Queen of the Belgians, and her son.
It was probably through this painting that Winterhalter came to the notice of Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, Queen of the French, mother of the Queen of the Belgians.