id: 119021 accession number: 1940.1208 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1208 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:39.788000 Portrait of a Man with a White Ruff, c. 1790. Heinrich Friedrich Füger (German, 1751–1818). Watercolor on ivory in a later gilt metal and enamel frame; diameter: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); diameter of frame: 11.1 cm (4 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1940.1208 title: Portrait of a Man with a White Ruff title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1790 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1795 current location: creditline: The Edward B. Greene Collection copyright: --- culture: Germany, 18th century technique: watercolor on ivory in a later gilt metal and enamel frame department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - German before 1800 type: Portrait Miniature find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Heinrich Friedrich Füger (German, 1751–1818) - artist Heinrich Füger was born in Heilbronn, a small town in south-western Germany midway between Heidelberg and Stuttgart, on December 8, 1751. By age eight, he was already painting miniature portraits; however, at age fifteen, he became discouraged with art and decided to study law. He returned to art, and began study with the historical painter Adam Friedrich Oeser in Leipzig. Füger's work caught the attention of the British and Swedish ambassadors to the court of Saxony at Dresden; where he achieved considerable success. In 1774 he went to Vienna and under the patronage of the empress Maria Theresa, he painted many portraits of the imperial family and Viennese aristocracy. In 1776, he moved to Italy, where he studied classical art and the works of Raphael and Anton Raphael Mengs, and he produced both miniatures and important large-scale works. Füger returned to Vienna in 1783. There he became vice-director of the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1795 its director. As court painter he became the most popular portrait artist in Vienna. However, by about 1798, an eye ailment prevented his painting miniatures and he returned to painting large-scale pictures. He died in Vienna on November 5, 1818. --- measurements: Diameter: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); Diameter of frame: 11.1 cm (4 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America opening date: 1993-03-26T04:00:00 Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993). title: Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives opening date: 2013-11-10T00:00:00 Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Schidlof, Paris, 1929). Purchased October 1929 for £250 by Edward B. Greene. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. Portrait Miniatures ; The Edward B. Greene Collection. 1951. page number: Mentioned: p. 37, cat. 80; Reproduced: plate XXXVI url: https://archive.org/details/PortraitMiniatures --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.1208/1940.1208_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.1208/1940.1208_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.1208/1940.1208_full.tif