Portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna
Portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna (1830 – 1911) c1859 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 Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna, née Princess of Saxe-Altenburg (Portrait of Großfürstin Alexandra Iosifowna, geb. Prinzessin von Sachsen-Altenburg).
She is in a three quarter profile standing pose with her right shoulder facing the viewer, positioned in front of a multi-colored wall with two large dark spots framing her with one at her back and the other in front at her waist.
She is adorned in a a lavish off shoulder blue dress with large silk ribbon accents along the sides, shoulders and as edge trim; with an additional embroidered white sheer overlay and a very light blue linen shawl, with added white and blue flowers that are placed at the center chest that go down to her waist.
She is also wearing large diamond earrings, a large pearl necklace and a wrap around pearl bracelet with a blue gemstone connected to a silk tassel on her right wrist, a gold ring with an embedded ruby on the fourth finger of her right hand; which is also holding a gold accented foldable fan.
Portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a clò-bhualadh canabhas air-loidhne.
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter was born in the small village of Menzenschwand, (a-nis na phàirt de Sankt Blasien), ann an Coille Dhubh na Gearmailt ann an Luchd-bhòtaidh Baden, air a' Ghiblean 20, 1805.
He was the sixth child of Fidel Winterhalter (1773 – 1863), tuathanach agus riochdaire roisinn anns a’ bhaile, agus a bhean Eva Meyer (1765 – 1838), na bhall de theaghlach Menzenschwand a bha stèidhichte o chionn fhada.
His father was of peasant stock and was a powerful influence in his life. De na h-ochdnar bhràithrean is pheathraichean, cha mhair ach ceathrar 'nan leanabachd.
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.