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
Rights
Public Domain
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