Franz Xaver Winterhalter
The Empress Eugénie (Eugénie de Montijo, 1826-1920, Condesa de Teba)
185492.7 x 73.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, dated, and inscribed lower right: Fr[?] Winterhalter Paris 1854
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Claus von Bülow Gift, 1978
Literature
Yuriko Jackall et al., America collects eighteenth-century French painting, Washington; London, 2017, p. 19, fig. 11
Provenance
the sitter, Empress Eugénie, Saint Cloud and Farnborough Hill, Farnborough, Hampshire, commissioned from the artist (until d. 1920
her estate
her estate sale, Christie's, London, July 1, 1927, nr. 99, to Seligmann
Jacques Seligmann, Paris 1927
his son, Germain Seligman(n), Paris and New York, 1927-77
sold to Artemis Group for Thaw
with E.V. Thaw, New York, 1977-78 sold to MMA
Other works by Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Empress Maria Aleksandrovna
1857
1857
S.P. Naryshkina
1858
1858
Portrait of Mme. Rimsky-Korsakov
1864
1864
Portrait of Sophia Frederika Mathilda (1818-77), Princess of Württemberg
1863 - 1873
1863 - 1873
Countess Orlov-Denisov
1853
1853