Portrait of Mrs Renouard de Bussière
Presumed Portrait of Mrs Renouard de Bussière, née Clémentine de Boubers c1854 by German Painter Hermann Winterhalter (1808 – 1891) younger brother of the portrait painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805 – 1873).
This is a beautiful portrait of a young lady with raven black hair in a white satin evening gown over a laced edge under blouse, with silk bows at the upper sleeve and waist; that is accented with a pink and white rose corsage.
The portrait is presumed to be that of Clémentine de Boubers (1829 – 1861), Baronne Renouard de Bussierre, done by Winterhalter when she was 25 lat.
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Hermann Winterhalter was born in the small village of Menzenschwand, (obecnie część Sankt Blasien), w niemieckim Schwarzwaldzie w elektoracie Badenii, w kwietniu 20, 1805.
He was the seventh child of Fidel Winterhalter (1773 – 1863), rolnik i producent żywicy we wsi, i jego żona Eva Meyer (1765 – 1838), członek długoletniej rodziny Menzenschwandów.
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. Z ośmiu braci i sióstr, tylko cztery przeżyły niemowlęctwo.
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, Włochy; 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.