Artist
Franz Xaver Winterhalter(German, 1805–1873)German, 1805–1873
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)
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
Exposé
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Department
Arts of Europe and the MediterraneanObject Type
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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