Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Empress Eugénie

CultureGerman
Titles
  • Empress Eugénie
Date1854
Made inParis, France
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 51 1/2 × 38 in. (130.8 × 96.5 cm)
Frame: 67 × 47 × 2 1/2 in. (170.2 × 119.4 × 6.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Agnes Cullen Arnold Endowment Fund
Object number2010.19
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
220 McNair Gallery
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Object Type
ProvenancePresented by the Empress Eugénie to Madame Eugène Rouher, 1884; [sold by Artemis Group, London, to a Private collector, 1984]; [Ben Elwes Fine Art, 2010]; purchased by MFAH with funds provided by the Agnes Cullen Arnold Fund, 2010.
Exhibition History"Exposition Universelle," Paris, 1855, no. 4208

Vienna, Kunstverein, 1856

"Franz Xaver Winterhalter and the Courts of Europe 1830-1870," National Portrait Gallery, London, October 30, 1987 - January 10, 1988; Petit Palais, Paris, February 11 - May 7, 1988

"Napoleon and Eugenie, Opulence and Splendor of France's Second Empire," Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, June 7 - September 7, 2009

"Winterhalter," Augustinermuseum Freiburg, Germany, November 28, 2015–March 20, 2016.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in green paint, recto bottom center: "F Winterhalter Paris / 1854."
Marked in black on plaque, frame recto bottom center: " "S.M. L'Impératrice Eugénie" / F.X. Winterhalter"

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