
In Winterhalter’s 1855 group portrait of the Empress Eugénie and her entourage, the ladies are seated in decorative groupings. Within this larger-than-life sized work,...

In Winterhalter’s 1855 group portrait of the Empress Eugénie and her entourage, the ladies are seated in decorative groupings. Within this larger-than-life sized work,...

German painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1806—1873) is best known for his idealised portraits of European and Russian royalty that were influenced by the Rococo and...

Countess Maria Ivanovna Lamsdorff was twenty-four years old when she sat to Winterhalter, who was one of the premiere portraitists of the European nobility. Although...

Pyotr Tchaikovsky's opera “Vakula the Smith” (1874) was dedicated to her memory. She was born as Princess Frederika Charlotte Mariya (1807—1873); known after her...