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"tombstone": "The Young Eastern Woman, 1838. Friedrich Amerling (Austrian, 1803\u20131887). Oil on fabric; framed: 106.5 x 90.5 x 9 cm (41 15/16 x 35 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 88.5 x 71.5 cm (34 13/16 x 28 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1991.163",
"current_location": "219 19th Century European",
"title": "The Young Eastern Woman",
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"collection": "Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960",
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"measurements": "Framed: 106.5 x 90.5 x 9 cm (41 15/16 x 35 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 88.5 x 71.5 cm (34 13/16 x 28 1/8 in.)",
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"title": "Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1887)",
"description": "Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1887). Belvedere, Wien, Austria (organizer) (March 26-June 22, 2003).",
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"description": "Vienna, kk Akademie der Bildenden K\u00fcnste. Wiener Kunstaustellung zu St. Anna (1838), no. 282.",
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"description": "Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna (3/26/2003 - 6/22/2003): \"Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1887),\" exh.cat. no. 69, p. 219.",
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"description": "Wien: Wien Museum Hermesvilla. Orientalische Reise: Malerei Und Exotick Im Spaten 19. Jahrhundert. Oct. 16, 2003 - April 12, 2004. Exh. cat. fig. 8, p. 43.",
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio",
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"description": "(Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"date": "1971-1991",
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"description": "Heirs of Franz Wertheim, United States, sold to the Galerie Sanct Lucas",
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"date": "Probably 1883-1971",
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"description": "Baron Franz Wertheim [1814-1883], Vienna, by descent to his heirs",
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"Gunther Probszt\u2019s 1927 book on Amerling situates the painting in the collection of Baron Franz Wertheim. Because Wertheim died in 1883, it is possible that Probszt meant to indicate that the painting was formerly with Wertheim, or that the painting was currently with Wertheim\u2019s heirs, perhaps Franz von Wertheim, Jr., who was born in 1865.
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"description": "L\u00f6scher, Vienna",
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"L\u00f6scher was a Viennese dealer active in the 1870s.
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"description": "(P. Kaeser, Vienna, Fellner sale, Dec. 14-15, 1871, lot 9, as \"Die Morgenl\u00e4nderin,\" sold to L\u00f6scher)",
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"description": "Jakob Fellner, Vienna",
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"Fellner bought most of the Feldm\u00fcller collection shortly after 1852.
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"description": "Mathias Feldm\u00fcller (the Younger), Vienna, sold to Jakob Fellne",
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"According to Amerling's account book, the painting was sold to Feldm\u00fcller, a wood merchant, for 80 ducats. The painting may have been paired with Amerling's \"Bathing Woman\" (now lost). Feldm\u00fcller also purchased works from Amerling in 1836, 1840, and 1850.
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"did_you_know": "One can see in Amerling's sensitive and beautiful portrayal why he was well known and admired for his portraits.",
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"description": "Although the artist provocatively titled this painting Young Eastern Woman, it is obvious that the model is not Asian, but merely wears a Turkish costume. The rich fabrics and glowing light create an exotic atmosphere, revealing a Western fascination with \"Oriental\" images and themes.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"Selected 1991 Acquisitions.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 2 (1992): 63-83.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 65, 76; Reproduced: p. 70",
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"citation": "Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. \u201cFerdinand Georg Waldm\u00fcller in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Portrait of Crescentia, Countess Zichy (later Countess Sz\u00e9chenyi) with a Parrot and a Camellia in a Mountainous Landscape.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 1 (1994): 3-17.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 16",
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"citation": "Grabner, Sabine. \"Art for the Bourgeoisie in Imperial Vienna.\" In Is That Biedermeier?: Amerling, Waldmu\u0308ller, and More. Ferdinand Georg Waldmu\u0308ller, 14-25. M\u00fcnchen: Hirmer Verlag; Vienna: Belvedere, 2016.",
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"citation": "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. 12-15, Vol. I, no. 4",
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"citation": "Ware, Zaria. Blk Art: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art. New York, NY : Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.",
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"citation": "Friedrich von Amerling: Werkverzeichnis Der Gema\u0308lde = Catalogue Raisonne\u0301 of the Paintings. Edited by Stella Rollig and Luisa Ziaja. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2025.",
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"biography": "Friedrich Amerling grew up in a poor working-class milieu and started his career illuminating maps and prints before attending the Vienna academy from 1815 until 1824. The following two years he studied at the academy in Prague, until his sojourn in London from 1827 through 1828. Amerling went to London primarily to meet the portraitist Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), whose fame had spread throughout Europe and whose work, together with that of Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), would form an important influence on Amerling's art. After a brief stay in Paris, during which Amerling met Vernet (q.v.), he went on to Rome. Back in Vienna he painted the life-size portrait of Emperor Franz I (1832/33, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), which, despite its mixed reviews, estab-lished his reputation as the foremost portrait painter in Vienna. From then on he received many portrait commissions from the Viennese aristocracy and bourgeoisie (see Waldm\u00fcller, Countess Sz\u00e9chenyi, fig. 223b). In 1833 Amerling traveled to the Netherlands and, upon his return, visited the artistic centers of Munich and D\u00fcsseldorf, where he met the influential academy director Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow (1788-1862). Amerling's career reached its height from the 1830s through the 1850s. In the early 1840s he traveled to Rome where he worked with Leopold Pollak (1806-1880) and August Riedel (1799-1883), who influenced his work with their depictions of Italian beauties. Besides painting formal portraits, Amerling developed a painting category that remained close to portraiture but crossed over to a slightly sentimental type of genre or character painting, mostly depicting single women in coquettish poses. Although Amerling retained a certain popularity throughout his long career-he was knighted in 1879-he failed to adapt to changing artistic developments and was eventually overshadowed by artists such as Hans Makart (1840-1884).",
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