Princess Maria Ilyinichna Golitsyna
Portrett av prinsesse Maria Ilyinichna Golitsyna c1875 av den spanske maleren Federico de Madraso y Kunz (1815 – 1894), was a Neoclassic Portrait Artist.
This is a captivating and elegant portrait of Princess Maria Ilyinichna Golitsyna (1834 – 1910); a Russian Noblewoman, Courtier and Philanthropist; who served as Ober-Hofmeisterin (Mistress of the Robes) to empress Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse 1872 – 1918) fra 1894 før 1910.
Princess Maria is dressed in a black leather garment with a black mesh scarf flowing from the back of her black hair over red flowers and on to the leather garment, that is accented with a gold necklace.
She is standing in garden that has trees and flowers her her figure is set against a green-blue sky with billowing white clouds.
Dette er en retusjert digital kunst som gamle mestere gjengir av et offentlig domenebilde.
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Federico was born in Rome to José de Madrazo y Agudo (1781 – 1859), a painter and former Director of the Prado Museum.
Federico came from a line of artists; his grandfather on his mother side was Tadeusz Kuntze (1733 – 1793), a Polish painter.
His brothers were Luis de Madrazo (1825 – 1897), en maler, Pedro de Madrazo (1816 – 1898), an art critic and Juan de Madrazo (1829 – 1880), an architect.
Among his children were Ricardo de Madrazo, også en maler, Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta and Cecilia de Madrazo who married the great Orientalist artist, Marià Fortuny.
The Madrazo family have been described as one of the most important painting dynasties, who literally dominated 19th-century painting in Spain.
Federico began taking artistic lesson from his father, and while still attending the Royal Academy of San Fernando, painted his first picture The Resurrection of Christ c1829; which was purchased by Queen Christina.
Soon after that painting he created Achilles in his Tent, and after that presented to the Academy The Continence of Scipio, which secured him admission as a member “for merit”.
Three years later Federico left for Paris where he studied on the Franz Winterhalter and painted portraits of Baron Taylor and Ingres (en fransk nyklassisk maler).
I 1837 han mottok en kommisjon for å lage et maleri for galleriet i Versailles, som han malte for “Godfrey de Bouillon utropt til konge av Jerusalem”; like etter kom han tilbake til Roma og tok på seg prosjekter med å lage portretter for det spanske aristokratiet.