Portrett af frú Renouard de Bussière
Áætluð mynd af frú Renouard de Bussière, fædd Clémentine de Boubers c1854 eftir þýskan málara Hermann Winterhalter (1808 – 1891) yngra seyðihann af portrettmálaranum Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805 – 1873).
Þetta er falleg andlitsmynd af ungri dömu með hrafnssvart hár í hvítum satín kvöldkjól yfir blússunni, með silkislaufum á efri ermi og mitti; sem er með áherslu með bleikum og hvítum rósum.
Talið er að andlitsmyndin sé af Clémentine de Boubers (1829 – 1861), Barónessa Renouard de Bussierre, gerði af Winterhalter þegar hún var 25 ára aldri.
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Hermann Winterhalter fæddist í litla þorpinu Menzenschwand, (nú hluti af Sankt Blasien), í Svartaskógi Þýskalands í kjördæminu Baden, apríl 20, 1805.
Hann var sjöunda barn Fidels 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 making him follow in his older brother Franz Winterhalter footsteps whom Hermann was very close to. Of the eight brothers and sisters, only four survived infancy.
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, Ítalíu; after which he moved to Paris, France where he worked with his brother Franz and exhibited at the Salon from 1838 – 1841, 1847 og 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 – næststærsta borg þýska sambandslandsins Baden-Württemberg.