Retrat de la senyora Renouard de Bussière
Presum retrat de la senyora Renouard de Bussière, de soltera Clémentine de Boubers c1854 del pintor alemany Hermann Winterhalter (1808 – 1891) brou més joveel del retratista Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805 – 1873).
Aquest és un bell retrat d'una dona jove amb els cabells negres de corb amb un vestit de nit de setí blanc sobre una vora amb cordons sota la brusa, amb llaços de seda a la part superior de la màniga i la cintura; que s'accentua amb un ramillet de rosa rosa i blanca.
Es suposa que el retrat és el de Clémentine de Boubers (1829 – 1861), Baronessa Renouard de Bussierre, fet per Winterhalter quan ella era 25 anys d'edat.
Es tracta d’una reproducció de vells mestres d’art digital retocada d’una imatge de domini públic.
Informació a continuació derivada de Wikipedia.org
Hermann Winterhalter va néixer al petit poble de Menzenschwand, (ara forma part de Sankt Blasien), a la Selva Negra d’Alemanya a l’elecció de Baden, l'abril 20, 1805.
Va ser el setè fill de Fidel Winterhalter (1773 – 1863), pagès i productor de resina del poble, i la seva dona Eva Meyer (1765 – 1838), membre d'una família Menzenschwand establerta des de fa temps.
His father was of peasant stock and was a powerful influence in his life making him follow in his older brother Franz Winterhalter footsteps whom Hermann was very close to. Dels vuit germans i germanes, només quatre van sobreviure a la infància.
Hermann began his artistic career, when he was first trained as a lithographer (Lithography is a method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by German author and actor Alois Senefelder (1771 – 1834) as a cheap method of publishing theatrical works.).
From there he later went on to study painting in Munich, Germany and Rome, Itàlia; after which he moved to Paris, France where he worked with his brother Franz and exhibited at the Salon from 1838 – 1841, 1847 i 1869.
In th 1850s Hermann independently started a small portrait practice of his own, creating respected works such as Young Girl from Ariccia and the portrait of his Parisian patron Nicolas-Louis Planat de la Faye.
After the fall of the Second French Empire (which was the 18-year Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from January 14, 1852 to September 4, 1870, between the Second Republic and Third Republic, of France.); Hermann and his brother Franz decided to retire to Baden; a historical territory in South Germany and North Switzerland, on both sides of the Upper Rhine.
Where Franz died in 1873; while Hermann for almost 20 more years, passing away on February 24, 1891 in Karlsruhe – the second-largest city of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg.