Portrait of the Empress Eugenie, after Winterhalter
19th century
Medium
Lithograph, colored by hand
Dimensions
plate: 20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm) sheet: 26 5/8 x 19 7/8 in. (67.6 x 50.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941
Accession Number
41.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
This elegant hand-colored lithograph captures the poised elegance of Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, rendered after a portrait by the renowned Franz Xaver Winterhalter Produced in the 19th by Léon Alphonse, it exemplifies the era's fascination with royal portraiture, where Winterhalter— a master of glamorous, flattering depictions of European aristocracy—excelled. Eugénie, a Spanish-born beauty who became a fashion icon of the Second French Empire (1852–1870), is portrayed with the refined splendor that defined her public image. Lithography, a revolutionary printing technique invented ...
About the Artist
Léon Alphonse Noël|Franz Xaver Winterhalter (French|German) · 1807 |1805 –1879 |1873
French, 1807–1879|German, Menzenschwand 1805–1873 Frankfurt