Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1859 - Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff (Maria Ivanovna Beck, 1835–1866) - fine art print

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Although trained in Germany, Winterhalter spent most of his adult life in Paris, where he became a favorite portraitist of European aristocrats. In 1841 alone, his sitters included the king and queen of Belgium; King Louis-Philippe of France; and Queen Maria Cristina of Spain. The following year, he added Marie-Amélie, queen of France, and Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of England to his roster of royal models. The twenty-four-year-old countess depicted here was the wife of Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff, a Russian aristocrat and Francophile. The book of English poetry in her lap is thought to be a reference to her father, Ivan Alexandrovitch Beck, a poet and translator. Her choice of a fashionable day dress may have been suggested by Winterhalter, who is known to have advised his sitters on their wardrobe and posed them to their best advantage in his studio.

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The 19th century painting was painted by the romanticist painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter. The original had the following size of 57 1/4 x 45 1/4 in (145,4 x 114,9 cm) and was painted with the techinque of oil on canvas. The piece of art forms part of the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. We are glad to reference that this artwork, which belongs to the public domain is provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967. Additionally, the artwork has the following creditline: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967. Moreover, alignment is in portrait format with a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The painter, lithographer Franz Xaver Winterhalter was an artist from Germany, whose style was mainly Romanticism. The Romanticist artist lived for a total of 68 years - born in 1805 in Menzenschwand, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany and died in the year 1873.

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