Artist
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
German, 1805–1873
Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German Realism painter. 41 works are cataloged here, principally at Hermitage Museum, most of them oil paintings. Franz Xaver Winterhalter was born in Menzenschwand.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865).
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