Portrait of Crescentia Bourgin
Portrait of Crescentia Bourgin c1833 by German Painter Joseph Karl Stieler (1781 – 1858); was a Neoclassical Portrait painter who worked as a royal court painter to the Bavarian Kings and who is known for the Gallery of Beauties at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich as well as his portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, which he did 1820.
The Portrait of Crescentia Bourgin is one of the paintings that Joseph Karl Stieler did for Ludwig I King of Bavaria as part of his Gallery Of Beauties. A collection of 36 portraits of what Ludwig I consider to be the most beautiful women of the nobility and middle classes of Munich Germany at that time.
This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available for sale online as a rolled print.
Info Below From Wikipedia.org
Joseph was born in the city of Mainz, Germany to a long-established family of engravers, punchcutters and die makers; receiving some artistic training from his father, August Friedrich Stieler (1736 – 1789).
After the untimely death of his father, Joseph Karl autodidactically completed his apprenticeship and began his career as a painter of miniatures, which were increasingly sought after by the bourgeois circles.
After Mainz had been occupied by French revolutionary troops in 1792, Stieler followed the expelled court of Prince-Archbishop Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal to Aschaffenburg.
Here he met with the later Archbishop Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg, who became his most important patron and sponsor.
From 1802 to 1805 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the master class of Heinrich Füger. Stieler’s portrait style was most especially shaped during his work in the Parisian atelier of François Gérard, a student of Jacques-Louis David.