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Item Number: 136216
Title: High Society : The Portraits of FRANZ XAVER WINTERHALTER
Author: Aurisch, Helga Kessler (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783897904484
Description: Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, 2015. 31cm., hardcover, 256pp., 159 color illus. English text. Summary: Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805–1873) was the most renowned portraitist of European aristocracy of his day, expertly capturing the refinement and opulence of his distinguished sitters. Born and trained in Germany, Winterhalter settled in Paris in 1834, where he became the official court painter to King Louis-Philippe. He gained such international acclaim for his state portraits that he painted all but a few of the monarchs in Europe. In Paris in 1855, at the pinnacle of his career, he painted the noble portrait Empress Eugénie and her Ladies-in-Waiting, which would go on to symbolize an entire era. His 1865 portrait of the Austrian Empress Sissi is also known the world over. The lavishly illustrated publication complements Winterhalter’s magnificent portraits of crowned heads of state with selected items of clothing by the contemporary and sought-after couturier Charles Frederick Worth.
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