Selfportrait with his brother Hermann, 1840

Franz Xavier Winterhalter (April 20, 1805 – July 8, 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his most well known works are: Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1864). Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (821x979, 52 KB) Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter Title: en:Selfportrait (left) with brother Hermann Year: 1840 Oil on canvas File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Franz Winterhalter... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (821x979, 52 KB) Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter Title: en:Selfportrait (left) with brother Hermann Year: 1840 Oil on canvas File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Franz Winterhalter... April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Maria Eugenia Ignacia Augustina Palafox de Guzmán Portocarrero y Kirkpatrick, 9th Countess de Teba, popularly known as Eugénie de Montijo (May 5, 1826 – July 11, 1920) was Empress Consort of France (1853-1871), the wife of Napoléon III. The last Empress of France was born in Granada... There are many women who might be known as Elisabeth of Austria: the most noted of these is the Empress Sisi, whose article is found at Elisabeth_of_Bavaria Other Elisabeth of Austrias include: Elisabeth of Austria (1437-1505), wife of Casimir IV of Poland Elisabeth of Austria (1554 - 1592), wife of...

Early Years

Franz Xavier Winterhalter was born in the small village of Menzenschwand in the Black Forest, Grand-Duchy of Baden. He was the sixth child of Fidel Winterhalter, a farmer and resin producer in the village, and his wife Eva Meyer, a member of a long established Menzenschwand family. His father was of peasant stock and was a powerful influence in his life. Of the eight brothers and sisters, only four survived infancy. Throughout his life, he remained very close to his family in particular to his brother Hermann Fidel Winterhalter (1808-1891), who was also a painter. A map of Germany, showing the Black Forest in red. ... Baden is a historical state in the southwest of Germany, on the right bank of the Rhine. ... Hermann Winterhalter (September 23, 1808, Menzenschwand, Germany – February 24, 1891, Karlsruhe) was a German painter, younger brother of the portrait painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1806-73). ...

After attending school at a Benedictine monastery in Blasien, Winterhalter left Menzenschwand in 1818 at the age of thirteen to study drawing and engraving. He learned the occupation of graphic artist from 1818 to 1824 in Freiburg. With a scholarship, he studied painting at the Academy of Arts in Munich. During this time, he worked in the studio of the painter Joseph Karl Stieler and was active as lithographer. Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich: St. ...

Winterhalter entered court circles when in 1828 he became drawing master to Sophie, margravine of Baden at Karlsruhe. A travel stipend in 1833-1834 took him to Italy, where he composed romantic genre scenes in the manner of Leopold Robert (1794-1835). On his return to Karlsruhe, he painted the portraits of the Grand Duke Leopold of Baden and his wife and was appointed painter to the grand-ducal court. gay ... Karlsruhe (population 283,959 in 2005) is a city in the south west of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border. ...

Nevertheless, he left Baden to move to France where his Italian genre scene Il dolce Farniente attracted notice at the Salons of 1836. Il Decameron a year later was also praised; both paintings are academic compositions in the style of Raphael. In the salon of 1838 he exhibited a portrait of the Prince of Wagram with his young daughter. His career as a portrait painter was soon secured when in the same year he painted Louise Marie of Orleans, Queen of Belgium and her son. It was probably through this painting that Winterhalter came to the notice of Louis-Philippe of France, father of the Belgian Queen. Raphael or Raffaello (April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520), born in Urbino, Italy, was a master painter and architect of the Florentine school in the Italian High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings. ... Louis-Philippe of France (October 6, 1773–August 26, 1850), served as the Orleanist king of the French from 1830 to 1848. ...

Court Painter

The Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting,1855,Château de Compiègne

In Paris, Winterhalter quickly became fashionable. He was appointed court painter of Louis-Philippe, the king of France, who commissioned him to paint individual portraits of his large family. Winterhalter would executed more than thirty commissions for him. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1346x934, 221 KB)The Empress Eugenie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting by Franz Winterhalter The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with copyright terms... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1346x934, 221 KB)The Empress Eugenie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting by Franz Winterhalter The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with copyright terms... Maria Eugenia Ignacia Augustina Palafox de Guzmán Portocarrero y Kirkpatrick, 9th Countess de Teba, popularly known as Eugénie de Montijo (May 5, 1826 – July 11, 1920) was Empress Consort of France (1853-1871), the wife of Napoléon III. The last Empress of France was born in Granada... The Château de Compiègne is a French château, a royal residence built for Louis XV and restored by Napoleon. ... Louis-Philippe of France (October 6, 1773–August 26, 1850), served as the Orleanist king of the French from 1830 to 1848. ...

This success earned the painter the reputation of a specialist in dynastic and aristocratic portraiture, skilled in combining likeness with flattery and enlivening official pomp with modern fashion.

However, Winterhalter’s reputation in artistic circles suffered. The critics, who had praised his debut in the salon of 1836, dismiss him as a painter that could not be taken seriously. This attitude persisted trough out Winterhalter's career, condemning his work to a category of his own in the hierarchy of painting. Winterhalter himself regarded his first royal commissions as temporary intermission before returning to subject painting and the field of academic respectability, but he was a victim of his own success and for the rest of his life he would work almost exclusively as a portrait painter. This was a field in which he was no only very successful but also made him rich. Winterhalter became an international celebrity enjoying Royal patronage. October 2, Charles Darwin returns from his voyage around the world. ...

Among his many regal sitters was also Queen Victoria. Winterhalter first visited England in 1842, and returned several times to paint Victoria, Prince Albert and their growing family, he did at least 120 works for them. Winterhalter also painted a few portraits of the aristocracy in England, mostly members of court circles. The fall of Louis-Philippe in 1848 did not affect the painter reputation. Winterhalter went to Switzerland and worked in commission in Belgium and England. Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819–22 January 1901) was a Queen of the United Kingdom, reigning from 20 June 1837 until her death. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Prince Albert piercing Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence Prince Albert of Monaco Prince Albert, Saskatchewan Prince Albert National Park, Canada Prince Albert in a Can This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... 1848 (MDCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ...

Portrait of Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov, 1864, Musée d'Orsay

Persistence saw Winterhalter survived from the fall of a dynasty to the rise of another. Paris remained his home until a couple of years before his death. A halt in portrait commissions in France allowed him to return to subject painting with : Florinda (1852)(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) a joyous celebration of female beauty, inspired by a Spanish legend. In this same year he made a marriage proposal but was rejected, Winterhalter remained a bachelor committed to his work. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (533x700, 85 KB) Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter Title: Portrait of Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov Year: 1864 Oil on canvas Museum: Musée dOrsay Paris File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (533x700, 85 KB) Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter Title: Portrait of Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov Year: 1864 Oil on canvas Museum: Musée dOrsay Paris File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on... The Musee d Orsay is a museum in Paris. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land... The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width {{{WidthUS}}} miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ...

After the accession of Napoleon III, his popularity grew. From then on, under the second Empire, Winterhalter became the chief portraitist of the imperial family and court of France. The beautiful French Empress Eugénie became a favorite sitter and she treated him generoulsy. In 1856 Winterhalter painted his masterpiece: Empress Eugénie sourrended by her ladies in waiting. He set the French Empress a in a pastoral setting gathering flowers in a harmaoiuos circle with her ladies in waiting. The painting was acclaimed and exhibit in the universal exposition in 1853. This painting remains Winterhalter most famous work. Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (April 20, 1808 - January 9, 1873) was the son of King Louis Bonaparte and Queen Hortense de Beauharnais; both monarchs of the French puppet state, the Kingdom of Holland. ... The canonical example of Second Empire style is the Opéra Garnier, in which Neo-Baroque meets Neo-Renaissance. ... Maria Eugenia Ignacia Augustina Palafox de Guzmán Portocarrero y Kirkpatrick, 9th Countess de Teba, popularly known as Eugénie de Montijo (May 5, 1826 – July 11, 1920) was Empress Consort of France (1853-1871), the wife of Napoléon III. The last Empress of France was born in Granada... 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

The royal families of England, France, and Belgium all commissioned their portraits from Winterhalter. In 1852, he went to Spain to paint Queen Isabella II and worked for the Portuguese royal family. Russian aristocratic visitors to Paris also liked to have their portraits executed by the famous master. As the "Painter of Princes”, Winterhalter was thereafter in constant demand by the courts of Britain (from 1841), Spain, Belgium, Russia, the German courts, and France. In the following years Winterhalter was very in demand, he went to Poland in 1856 painting for the aristocracy there and in 1857 in Upper Bavaria he painted the tsarina Maria Alexandrovna. Over the course of the next years he painted many russian comitions troug the 1860s. To deal with the pressure of portrait commissions, many of them calling for multiple replicas, Winterhalter made extensive use of assistants. No portrait painter ever enjoyed such an extraordinary royal patronage as Winterhalter, only Rubens and Van Dyck worked as he did in an international network. 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Isabella II (October 10, 1830 – 1904), Isabel II in Spanish, was queen of Spain. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... A Tsarina, also spelled czarina, is an English arrangement of Russian and Bulgarian word цари́ца (tsaritsa or czaritsa), which was the title of Tsars wife or a female autocratic ruler (monarch) of Russia or Bulgaria. ... Marie of Hesse Princess Maximilienne Wilhelmine Marie of Hesse and the Rhine (8 August 1824-8 June 1880) was a princess of Grand Ducal Hesse and, as Marie Alexandrovna, Empress consort of Alexander II of Russia. ... // Events and trends Technology The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ... Rubens and Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower Alte Pinakothek Pieter Pauwel (Peter Paul) Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) was the most popular and prolific Flemish and European painter of the 17th century. ... Self Portrait With a Sunflower Sir Anthony (Antoon) van Dyck (*March 22, 1599 - December 9, 1641) was a Flemish painter — mainly of portraits — who became the leading court painter in England. ...

Last Years

Portrait of Leonilla Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn, 1843 J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Winterhalter sought respite from the pressures of his work with holidays abroad in Italy, Switzerland and above all in Germany. In spite of his many years living in France, he remained deeply attached to his native country. For all his success and popularity, Winterhalter continued to live simply and abstemiously. In 1859 he bought a villa in Baden-Baden, his favorite vacation spot. Image File history File links Franz_Xaver_Winterhalter_Leonilla_Princess_of_Sayn_Wittgenstein_Sayn. ... Image File history File links Franz_Xaver_Winterhalter_Leonilla_Princess_of_Sayn_Wittgenstein_Sayn. ... View of a building at the Getty Center, from the Central Garden. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... 1859 (MDCCCLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar). ... Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Baden-Baden is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...

In 1864 Winterhalter made his last visit to England. In the autumn of that year he traveled to Vienna to execute the portraits of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth that remain among his most well-known works. As he grew older, Winterhalter links with France weakened while his interest in Germany grew. He was taken a cure in Switzerland at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War that ended the second Empire in September of 1870. After the war, the painter did not return to France going instead to Baden. Without traumatism, he decided to retire in Germany. He was officially still accredited at the court of Baden and he settle in Karlsruhe. During the last two years of his life Winterhalter painted very little. During a visit to Frankfurt am Main in the summer of 1873 he contracted typhus and died on July 8, 1873. He was sixty-eight years old. 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 Vienna (German: Wien ) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... Franz Joseph I Franz Joseph (in English also Francis Joseph) (August 18, 1830 - November 21, 1916) of the Habsburg Dynasty was Emperor of Austria and King of Bohemia from 1848 until 1916 and King of Hungary from 1867 until 1916. ... Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Duchess in Bavaria and Princess of Bavaria (December 24, 1837 – September 10, 1898), of the House of Wittelsbach, was Empress-Consort of Austria and Queen consort of Hungary due to her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph. ... Combatants Second French Empire North German Confederation allied with south German states (later German Empire) Commanders Napoleon III Helmuth von Moltke Strength 500,000[citation needed] 550,000[citation needed] Casualties 150,000 dead or wounded 284,000 captured 350,000 civilian [citation needed] 100,000 dead or wounded 200... The canonical example of Second Empire style is the Opéra Garnier, in which Neo-Baroque meets Neo-Renaissance. ... gay ... Karlsruhe (population 283,959 in 2005) is a city in the south west of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border. ... Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city of Germany. ... 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

Style

Portrait of Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria, 1864

Winterhalter came into his own as a portrait painter during the second Empire and he painted his best work during the last two decades of his life. He matched his style to the luxury and relaxed atmosphere of the age, its hedonism and gaiety. His female sitters of the 60s and 50s inhabit a different physiological climate from those he painted earlier, they are not reticence and reserved. His male sitters inspired few original or memorable compositions. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (555x855, 67 KB) Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Kaiserin Elisabeth File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Franz Winterhalter ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (555x855, 67 KB) Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Kaiserin Elisabeth File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Franz Winterhalter ... Empress Elisabeth. ... The canonical example of Second Empire style is the Opéra Garnier, in which Neo-Baroque meets Neo-Renaissance. ... Gadabout redirects here. ...

Winterhalter never received high praise for his work from serious critics, being constantly accused of superficiality and affectation in pursue of popularity. However, he was highly appreciated by his aristocratic patrons. The royal families of England, France, Spain, Russia, Portugal and Belgium all commissioned him to paint portraits. His monumental canvases established a substantial popular reputation, and lithographic copies of the portraits helped to spread his fame. Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ...

Winterhalter's portraits were prized for their subtle intimacy; the nature of his appeal is not difficult to explain. He created the image his sitters wished or needed to project to their subjects. He was not only skilled at posing his sitters to create almost theatrical compositions, but also was a virtuoso in the art of conveying the texture of fabrics, furs and jewellery, to which he paid no less attention than to the face. He painted very rapidly and very fluently, designing most of his compositions directly in the canvas. His portraits are elegant, refined life-like and pleasantly idealized.

His style was suave, cosmopolitan and plausible. As an artist he remained a difficult figure to place, there are few painters with whom to compare him and he does not fit into any school. His early affinities were neoclassical but his style can be described as Neo-Rococo. After his death his painting failed out of favor being considered romantic, glossy, and superficial. Little was known about him personally and his art was not taken seriuosly until recently. However, a major exhibition of his work at the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Petit Palais in Paris in 1987 brought him into the limelight again. His paintings are exhibited today in leading European and American museums. Look up cosmopolitan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... North side of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo - carriage courtyard: all the stucco details sparkled with gold until 1773, when Catherine II had gilding replaced with olive drab paint. ... The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in St Martins Place, London, England, which opened to the public in 1856. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Façade of the Petit Palais The Petit Palais is a museum in Paris, France. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Decameron, 1837 Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1000x675, 174 KB) Franz Xaver Winterhalter - The Decameron Oil on canvas - 1837 75 x 100 inches (190. ...	Sophie Margravine of Baden, 1828 Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (469x647, 27 KB) Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter Title: en:Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden de:Sophie Wilhelmine von Holstein-Gottorp, Markgräfin und später Großherzogin Sophie von Baden, Year: 1831 Oil on canvas File links The following pages... Princess Sophie of Sweden (Swedish: , German: Sophie von Schweden), sometimes called Sofia Wilhelmina of Vasa (May 21, 1801 - July 6, 1865), was a consort Grand Duchess of Baden. ...	Louise-Marie, Queen of the Belgians, 1841 Royal Collection Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (616x1086, 265 KB) no rights due of age, Royal Collection Belgium. ... Queen Louise-Marie of Belgium painted by Winterhalter Louise-Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle dOrléans, fille de France, and Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Leopold I. Born in Palermo, Sicily on April 3, 1812, she was the eldest daughter of the future King... The Royal Collection Department is an organisation tasked with the cataloguing, conservation, cleaning, restoration and display of the books, pictures, sculptures and other works of art collected by the British royal family. ...	Roman Genre Scene, 1833 Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (641x817, 54 KB) Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter Title: en:Roman Genre Scene Year: 1833 Oil on canvas File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Franz Winterhalter ...
Florinda, 1852 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1031x746, 175 KB) Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter Title: Florinda Year: 1853 178,4 x 245,7 cm Oil on canvas Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages... The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often referred to simply as The Met, is one of the worlds largest and most important art museums. ... Nickname: Big Apple; City that never Sleeps; Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ...	Portrait of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, 1862 Royal Collection Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (470x735, 101 KB) Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, in 1862 by Franz Winterhalter This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a... Princess Alice (Alice Maud Mary), (25 April 1843 – 14 December 1878), was a member of the British Royal Family, the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria. ... Victoria Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819–22 January 1901) was a Queen of the United Kingdom, reigning from 20 June 1837 until her death. ... The Royal Collection Department is an organisation tasked with the cataloguing, conservation, cleaning, restoration and display of the books, pictures, sculptures and other works of art collected by the British royal family. ...

References

- Richard Ormond and Carol Blackett – Ord, Franz Xaver Winterhalter: And the Courts of Europe, 1830-70, Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, London, 1987. ISBN: 0810939649.

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