Portrait of Alois Senefelder
Medium
Graphite and brush and gray wash; framing lines in graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/16 x 6 5/8 in. (23 x 16.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2008
Accession Number
2008.357
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate profile portrait of Aloisefelder, rendered in graphite with brush and gray wash, the inventor in a classical three-quarter view, framed by subtle graphite lines. Created around the era spanning 1805–73 and attributed in connection to Franz Xaver Winterhalter—a master of elegant portraiture known for his work with European royalty—the drawing measures a modest 9 1/16 x 6 5/8 inches. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department (acquired via the Harry G. Sperling Fund in 2008), it exemplifies the precision of preparatory sketches from the Romantic perio...
About the Artist
Alois Senefelder|Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German|German) · 1771 |1805 –1834 |1873
German, Prague 1771–1834 Munich|German, Menzenschwand 1805–1873 Frankfurt