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Portrait of Baroness Gudin, née Margareth Louis Hay
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Portrait of Baroness Gudin, née Margareth Louis Hay

Medium

Graphite

Dimensions

sheet: ca. 15 3/4 x 11 7/16 in. (40 x 29 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Fund and Sally and Howard Lepow and C. G. Boerner Gifts, 2010

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Franz Xaver Winterhalter

1805–1873Grand Duchy of BadenGerman Empire

German painter, best known for his state portraits of the Belgian, English and French royal families. Although Winterhalter used no preliminary sketches on the canvas, and decided the dress and pose of the sitter, he was able to fuse formality and intimacy in his work, using bold color and contrasting sumptuous fabric against delicate flesh.