Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Literature

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 41

Provenance

the sitter's husband, Count Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff, Saint Petersburg (possibly commissioned as a wedding present), 1859–d. 1902)
their son, Count Nikolai Alexandrovitch Lamsdorff, Saint Petersburg, 1902–d. 1906
his brother, Count Dmitry Alexandrovitch Lamsdorff, Saint Petersburg, 1906–at least 1917
probably expropriated and nationalized in 1918/19
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, in 1925–28, transferred to the Pushkin
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, ca. 1928
with art dealer, Paris, in the 1920s and 1930s, sold to de Groot
Adelaide Milton de Groot, New York, by 1936–d. 1967, on loan to MMA, 1936

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 67.187.119

Other works by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Empress Elisabeth of Austria in a White Ball Dress
1865

Countess Marie Branicka de Bialacerkiew, née Princess Sapicka
1865

The Empress Eugénie with her Ladies-In-Waiting
1855

Florinda
1853

Empress Maria Aleksandrovna
1857