id: 149648 accession number: 1979.43 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.43 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:43.864000 Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden (1801-1865), 1831. Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805–1873). Oil on fabric; framed: 57.5 x 46.5 x 10 cm (22 5/8 x 18 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.); unframed: 39.1 x 28.5 cm (15 3/8 x 11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection 1979.43 title: Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden (1801-1865) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1831 creation date earliest: 1831 creation date latest: 1831 current location: 219 19th Century European creditline: The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection copyright: --- culture: Germany, 19th century technique: oil on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805–1873) - artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter was born in the Black Forest village of Menzenschwand. In 1818 he left for Freiburg/Breisgau to study and practice graphics for some five years with Karl Ludwig Schuler (1785-1852); he worked at Herder, the famous publishing house. In 1823 he moved to Munich, where he earned his living as a lithographer and portraitist until he was admitted to the Munich Academy. In addition to his academic training, he worked in the studio of Joseph Stieler (1781-1858), the miniaturist and portrait painter of the court of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Stieler had once been a student of neoclassical portraitist François Gérard (1778-1837) in Paris. In Stieler's studio Winterhalter found the stimulus for his future career as a leading court portraitist in Europe. He began in Karlsruhe, the seat of the Margraves of Baden who had ruled parts of southwest Germany since the Middle Ages. Prior to his official appointment in 1834 as court painter of Grand Duke Leopold and his wife, Sophie Guillemette, Winterhalter spent two years in Italy where he joined the circle of French painters around Vernet (q.v.). After 1834 Winterhalter moved to Paris and soon became the most sought-after portraitist of royals and nobles throughout Europe. Winterhalter's brother, Hermann (1808-1891), a painter in his own right, followed him to Paris in 1840 and became his assistant. Winterhalter consistently served the French court from Louis-Philippe to Napoleon III, even becoming a favorite portraitist of Queen Victoria. In 1868 Winterhalter left Paris, traveling to various cities. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he happened to be in Switzerland and returned to Karlsruhe that same year. He died in Frankfurt of typhus in 1873. --- measurements: Framed: 57.5 x 46.5 x 10 cm (22 5/8 x 18 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 39.1 x 28.5 cm (15 3/8 x 11 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower left: Fr. Winterhalter f 1831 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1979 opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980). title: Franz Xaver Winterhalter and the Courts of Europe, 1830-70 opening date: 1987-10-30T05:00:00 Franz Xaver Winterhalter and the Courts of Europe, 1830-70. National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (October 30, 1987-January 10, 1988); Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (February 11-May 7, 1988). title: High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter opening date: 2016-04-01T00:00:00 High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (organizer) (April 17-August 14, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Possibly Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle (according to "Verzeichnis der Gemälde für die Winterhalter-Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle zu Baden [October 1873]," published in Wild 1894, 57, no. 42, Porträt I. K. H. der Grossherzogin Sophie).', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': "Franz Xaver Winterhalter 1987. 13, 25, 212, 219, 225, no. 4, 74 (repr.), 176 (exhibited in London only). This catalogue gives an annotated version of the list of Winterhalter's oeuvre originally compiled by Franz Wild in 1894.", 'opening_date': '1987-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Museum of Fine Arts.Houston, TX (4/17/2016 - 8/14/2016): "High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter"', 'opening_date': '2016-04-17T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Grand Dukes of Baden. London sale, Christie's, 24 November 1978 (lot 74, repr.), Property of a Lady: Portrait of Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden, £5.500, to Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Ltd., London. Purchased by the CMA in 1979. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection is on View in Year in Review Exhibition,” February 7, 1980, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr2737 Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 40, p. 71; Mentioned: p. 59 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667 Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. “Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Portrait of Crescentia, Countess Zichy (later Countess Széchenyi) with a Parrot and a Camellia in a Mountainous Landscape.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 1 (1994): 3-17. page number: Mentioned: p. 16 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161437 Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 642-644, Vol. II, no. 225 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.43/1979.43_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.43/1979.43_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.43/1979.43_full.tif