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WINTERHALTER, Franz Xavier (1805-1875)

"PORTRAIT OF EMPRESS EUGENIE"

Painting: 36-1/2" x 29" Signed and dated 1854

The Empress is seen wearing a dress of the Marie Antoinette style, walking in the park of the Château of Compiègne.

Dress of yellow gold color taffeta with silver fringe and underskirt of white taffeta with a gold bend at the lower edge, bordered by two rows of black ribbon. The velvet bows are black. Her hair is powdered and arranged with black velvet and a small spray of flowers. The shrubs either side of the path are a delicate green and the flowers are lilacs - those to the right at the height of the Empress' head being white.

Collection: H.M. Empress Eugenie.

Exhibited: "Winterhalter Exhibition" Hotel de Sagan, Paris May 1928
"Beautiful Women of the 19th Century", London, 1933
"Winterhalter", Loan Exhibition, War Service Legion, London 1936
"Paintings of Women from the 15th. to the 20th. Century", Art Gallery of Toronto, 1938.
"Masterpieces of Art", N.Y. World's Fair, 1940 (No. 299)
"Vanity Fair" Exhibition, Cal. Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Summer 1942.
"Fashion in Headdress 1450-1943" for benefit of N.Y.
Infirmary for Women and Children, Wildenstein, May 1943, (No. 83.)

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Reproduced: "Internation/Studio", Oct. 1928.
"L'Art et les Artistes", No. 87, May 1928
"Figaro, Supplément Artistique", May 1928
"L'Illustration", May 1928.

Bibliography: "Catalogue of Collection of Her Majesty Empress Eugenie, Farnborough Hill".

LENT BY: Mr. and Mrs. Germain Seligman, New York