Franz Xaver Winterhalter: Works 1851-1855

Last Update: 27 Nov 2022

Franz Xaver Winterhalter 

[Menzenschwand 20 April 1805 – Frankfurt am Main 8 July 1873]

This Catalogue Raisonné is Research-in-Progress. Comments, additional information, images, and research materials are welcome; all contributions will be gratefully acknowledged. This is a concise list of works with selected images only.  Please, contact the author, Eugene Barilo von Reisberg, for the following information:

  • Catalogue entries / essays on each artwork;
  • Sitters’ Biographies and Lists of Descendants (where known);
  • Provenance of each artwork;
  • Exhibition History;
  • Detailed known bibliography (from 1830s to the present day);
  • Lists of known copies / versions / replicas;
  • Lists of known prints / lithographs / engravings after each artwork.

Dr Eugene Barilo von Reisberg

vonreisberg[at]gmail[dot]com

 

Works from 1851 to 1855

 

385 51 Batholdi

[51ba]  Madeleine Delessert, Baronne Bartholdy (1831-1910).
1851, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 80.5 cm.
Signed, dated & inscribed lower right: fr. Winterhalter Paris 1851.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 40 as Mme Bartholdy, sa fille, 1850; BvR 2015: no.385)

[51be] Frédéric, Duc de Beaufort-Spontin (1843-1916).
Ca. 1851.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 41 as Le Petit Duc de Beaufort de Bruxelles; BvR 2015: no.424)

388 51 Delessert1

[51de] Sophie Gautier, Mme Delessert (1796-1877).
1851, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 109 x 87 cm.
Signed, dated & inscribed lower right: fr. Winterhalter Paris 1851.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 40 as Mme Delesert-François; BvR 2015: no.388)

Picture1

[51fr] Victoire, Duchesse de Nemours (1822-57), with her children.
Ca. 1851.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 41 as Les quatres enfants de la duchesse de Nemours; BvR 2015: no.435). NOTE: Wild’s entry is presumably erroneous, as Duchesse de Nemours only had three children by 1851-52: HRH Gaston d’Orléans, Comte d’Eu (1842-1922); HRH Ferdinand d’Orléans, Duc d’Alençon (1844-1910) and HRH Marguerite d’Orléans, Princess Ladislas Czartoryska (1846-93). The fourth daughter of the Duchesse de Nemours, HRH Princesse Blanche, was born in 1857.

425 51 Gainsborough

[51ga] Frances Countess Gainsborough (1814-85, née Lady Frances Jocelyn).
1850-51, London.
Oil on canvas, 54.0 x 43.4 cm.
Signed and dated: f Winterhalter / 1851.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 40; BvR 2015: no.425)

[51gr-a] The First of May, 1851 (The Duke of Wellington, the Prince Consort, Queen Victoria and Prince Arthur).
1851, London.
Oil on canvas, 106.7 x 129.5 cm.
Signed and dated: f Winterhalter 1851.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.426)

[51gr-b] Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the costumes of Catherine of Braganza and Charles II at the Restoration Costume Ball, Buckingham Palace, 13 June 1851.
1851, London.
Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 45.7 cm.
Signed and dated bottom right: fr Winterhalter / 1851.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(BvR 2015: no.427)

[51gr-c] Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain & Ireland (1840-1901, later Empress of Germany & Queen of Prussia).
1851, London.
Oil on canvas, circular: 35.0 cm.
Signed and dated: f Winterhalter 1851.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.428)

[51gr-d] Louise, Princess of Great Britain & Ireland (1848-1939, later Duchess of Argyll).
1851, London.
Oil on canvas, circular: 33.0 cm.
Signed and dated: f Winterhalter / 1851.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.429)

51gr-e Arthur c

[51gr-e] Arthur, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942).
1851, London
Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 90.2 cm.
Signed and dated: fr Winterhalter 1851.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.430)

[51gr-f] Queen Victoria Landing at Loch Muick [by Sir Edwin Landseer, with portraits by F.X. Winterhalter].
Ca. 1851
Oil on canvas
Formerly in the British Royal Collection; destroyed due to its deteriorating condition, c. 1920.
(BvR 2015: no.430a)

[51la] Jeanne Le Sage d’Hauteroche d’HulstBaronne Lambert de Cambray (1829-51).
Ca. 1851.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 41 as Mlle d’Hulst (Cambray); BvR 2015: no.431)

[51le] Mlle Leclère.
Ca. 1851.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 41 as Mlle Leclère; BvR 2015: no.432)

[51ma-a] Hélène BartholdyBaronne Mallet (1825-96).
1851, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 12.00 x 80.5 cm.
Signed, dated and inscribed lower left: f Winterhalter / Paris 1851.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 40; BvR 2015: no.433)

[51ma-b] Mathilde Delebecque, Mme Jules Malou (1812-99). 
Ca. 1851.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 41 as Mme Malou; BvR 2015: no.434)

51ma-c Malou

[51ma-c] M. Jules Malou (1810-86).
Ca. 1851.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(BvR 2015: no.434a)

[51no] Clothilde de la Ferté-Meun de Molé de Champlâtreux, Duchesse d’Ayen et de Noailles (1831-1931).
Ca. 1851.
Oil on canvas, 50.0 x 40.0 cm.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 41 as La Duchesse Noailles (jeune); BvR 2015: no.436)

[51pr-a] Frederick Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen (1831-88, later Emperor of Germany & King of Prussia).
1851, London.
Oil on canvas, 53.3 x 43.2 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: f Winterhalter. 1851.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.437)

438 1851 Prussia

[51pr-b] Luise Prinzessin von Preußen (1838-1923, later Großherzogin von Baden).
1851, London.
Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 47.6 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: f Winterhalter / 1851.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.438)

[51sa-a] Amalie Prinzessin von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1848-94, later Herzogin in Bayern).
1851, London.
Oil on canvas, 34.5 x 31 cm.
Signed and indistinctly dated lower left: f Winterhalter / 185(?)
Private Collection (Hampel, March 2006, 408, € 4.500).
(BvR 2015: no.440)

[51sa-b] Clothilde Prinzessin von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1846-1927, later Erzherzogin von Österreich, Prinzessin von Ungarn).
1851, London.
Oil on canvas, 35.0 x 30.8 cm
Signed and dated indistinctly, lower centre: f Winterhalter/185?.
Private Collection (Christie’s London, 15 Jun 2005, 145,  £54,000).
(BvR 2015: no.440)

[51st-a] Theodore, Comte van der Strathen-Ponthoz (1809-89).
Ca. 1851.
Oil on canvas, 78 x 62 cm.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 40 as Le Comte Vanderstraten Ponthoz; BvR 2015: no.441)

[51st-b] Valérie de Beaufort-Spontin, Comtesse van der Strathen-Ponthoz (1811-87).
Ca. 1851.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 41 as La Comtesse Vanderstraten Ponthoz; BvR 2015: no.442)

[51st-c] Miss Strather, of Kentucky.
Ca. 1851.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 41 as Mlle Strather de Kentucky; BvR 2015: no.443)

[52ag-a] Claire-Emilie MacDonell, Marquise de Las Marismas del Guadalquivir (1817-1905, later Vicomtesse Aguado). 
1852, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 112.0 x 85.0 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: fr Winterhalter / 1852.
Versailles: Musée National du Château.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.444)

[52ag-b] Comte Olympe Aguado de Las Marismas (1827-94).
1852, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 118.0 x 90.0 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: fr Winterhalter / 1852.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.445) NOTE: This work was formerly attributed as a portrait of Comte de Nieuwerkerke.

[52ag-c] Victomte Onessipe Aguado de Las Marismas (1830-93).
Ca. 1852.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 41 as Le Vicomte Onessipe Aquado; BvR 2015: no.446)

1852 Chimay Winterhalter

[52ch] Joseph, Prince de Chimay (1808-86).
1852, Brussels.
Oil on canvas, 109.0 x 92.0 cm.
Signed, dated, and inscribed lower left: fr Winterhalter / Bruxelles 1852.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 40; BvR 2015: no.451)

[52co] Princess Victoria Gouramma of Coorg (1841-64, later Mrs John Campbell). 
1852, London.
Oil on canvas, 152.7 x 91.8 cm.
Signed and dated: f Winterhalter 1852.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.466)

[52de] Emil Devrient (1803-1872), as Marquis Posa [from Don Carlos (1787) by Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)].
1852.
Pencil on paper, 14.0 x 9.5 cm.
Inscribed and dated in the mount: Emil Deurient as Posa / from recollection / Fr Winterhalter 1852.
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.454)

52es Esher-c

[52es] Mrs Baliot Brett (1814-1904, née Mlle Eugénie Mayer, later Viscountess Esher).
1852, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 54.0 cm.
Signed, dated and inscribed left, lower centre: fr Winterhalter / Paris 1852.
Private Collection (with Christie’s London, 1 Dec 2022, 151).
(RA 1853; Wild 1894, 41 as Mr Baliol Brett; BvR 2015: no.455; read more about this work)

460 52qv Victoria Copy

[52gr-a] Victoria, Queen of Great Britain & Ireland (1819-1901).
1852, London.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right: fr Winterhalter / 1852.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.460)

[52gr-b] The Cousins: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain & Ireland (1819-1901) and Victoire, Duchesse de Nemours (1822-57).
1852, London.
Oil on canvas, 66.5 x 50.5 cm.
Signed and dated: f Winterhalter 1852.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.461)

[52gr-c] Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1841-1910, later  Edward VII, King of Great Britain & Ireland).
1852, London.
Oil on canvas, circular 33.5 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: f Winterhalter / 1852.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 39; BvR 2015: no.462)

[52gr-d] Alfred, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland, Duke of Edinburgh (1844-90).
1852, London.
Oil on canvas, 33.4 cm (circular).
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 39; BvR 2015: no.463)

[52gr-e] Arthur, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942).
1852, London.
Oil on canvas, 73 x 61 cm.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(BvR 2015: no.464)

52gr-f Cambridge (2)

[52gr-f] George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904).
1852, London.
Oil on canvas, 61.3 x 50.8 cm.
Signed and dated: f Winterhalter / 1852.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.447)

[52kr] Countess Elzbieta Krasinska (1820-76, née Countess Branicka).
1852, Baden-Baden.
Watercolour.
Present location unknown.
(BvR 2015: no.465a)

[52la-a] Luigi Lablache (1794-1858).
1852, London.
Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 50.5 cm.
Signed and dated: f Winterhalter / 1852.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.467)

[52la-b] Mlle de Lagrenée.
Ca. 1852-1853.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.468) NOTE: Wild’s entry refers presumably to a daughter of Théodore de Lagrené (1800-62) and his wife, née Varvara Ivanovna Dubenskaia (1812-1901), either Garbielle-Marie (1835-1884, later Mme Broët) or Olga (1838-1897).

[52pa] Mlle de Panisse.
Ca. 1852.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 41 as Mlle de Panisse; BvR 2015: no.470)

[52sp-a] Isabel II, Queen of Spain (1830-1904), with her eldest daughter, Isabel, Infanta de España, Princesa de Asturias (1851-1931), later Contessa di Girgenti).
1852-56, Madrid / Paris.
Oil on canvas, 275.0 x 176.0 cm.
Collection of HM Felipe VI, King of Spain.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.471)

52sp-b Spain

[52sp-b] Isabel II, Queen of Spain (1830-1904).
1852, Madrid.
Oil on canvas, 127.0 x 105.0 cm.
Freiburg-im-Breisgau: Augustinermuseum.
(BvR 2015: no.472)

52sp-c Spain

[52sp-c] Isabel de Borbón y Borbón, Infanta de España, Princesa de Asturias (1851-1931, later Contessa di Girgenti).
1852, Madrid.
Oil on canvas, 36.0 x 29.0 cm.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.473)

[52zz-a] Florinda.
1852, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 179.1 x 244.5 cm.
Signed, dated and inscribed: fr Winterhalter. Paris. 1852
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(RA 1852; Wild 1894, 53; BvR 2015: no.456)

[52zz-b] Study for Florinda.
1852, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 32.4 x 41.5 cm.
Schweinfürt: The Schäffer Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.457)

52zz-c Florinda

[52zz-c] Study for Florinda.
1852, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 cm (approx.)
Unsigned.
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.458)

[52zz-d] Study for Florinda.
1852.
Charcoal drawing.
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.459)

[53zz] Florinda.
1853, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 178.4 x 245.7 cm.
Signed lower right: fr Winterhalter
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(Salon 1853; BvR 2015: no.474)

[53ca-a] Camille Fontenilliat, Mme Casimir-Perier (1823-1912).
Ca. 1853.
Oil on canvas, 144.0 x 116.0 cm.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.448)

[53ca-b] M. Jean Casimir-Perier (1847-1907).
Ca. 1853-54.
Oil on canvas.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.449)

[53ca-c] Mlle Marie-Thérèse Casimir-Perier (1844-1916, later Comtesse de Ségur).
Ca. 1853.
Oil on canvas, 44.5 X 36 cm.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.450)

53dr Drucka

[53dr] Princess Maria Drucka-Lubicka (1833-1897, née Szemioth).
1853, Baden [?].
Oil on canvas, 102.0 x 91.0 cm,
Signed and dated lower right: fr Winterhalter / [Baden?] 1853.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 42; BvR 2015: no.483)

[53fr-a] Napoléon III, Emperor of the French (1808-73).
1853, Paris.
Oil on canvas.
The original is missing since c. 1870, presumably destroyed by fire at the Château des Tuileries, 1870.
(Salon 1855; Wild 1894, 42; BvR 2015: no.475)

[53fr-b] Eugénie, Empress of the French (1826-1920, née Condessa de Teba, etc.).
1853, Paris.
Oil on canvas.
The original is missing since c. 1870, presumably destroyed by fire at the Château des Tuileries, 1870.
(Salon 1855; Wild 1894, 42; BvR 2015: no.476)

53gr-a Arthur

[53gr-a] Arthur, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942), as Henry VIII.
Ca. 1853, Windsor.
Watercolour and pencil on paper, 36.5 x 24 cm.
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.477)

[53gr-b] Arthur, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942).
1853, London.
Oil on canvas, 84.8 x 57.2 cm.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(BvR 2015: no.478)

[53gr-c] Leopold, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland, Duke of Albany (1853-82).
1853, London.
Oil on canvas, 63.5 x 50.8 cm.
Signed and dated: f Winterhalter / 1853.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(BvR 2015: no.479)

[53ha] Marie, Duchess of Hamilton & Brandon (1817-88, née Prinzessin von Baden).
Ca. 1853, Paris.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.479a)

[53ho-a] Ernst Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1794-1860).
1853, London.
Oil on canvas, 62.9 x 50.8 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: f Winterhalter / 1853.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(BvR 2015: no.481)

53ho-b 1853 Hohenlohe

[53ho-b] Adelaide Prinzessin von Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1835-1900, later Fürstin von Schleswig-Holstein-Sondenburg-Augustenburg).
1853, London.
Oil on canvas, 35.6 x 30.5 cm.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 40, 42; BvR 2015: no.480)

[53kr-a] Countess Elzbieta Krasinska (1820-76, née Countess Branicka), with her children, Sigismund (1846-64), Wladislaw (1844-73) and Maria (1850-84, later Countess Raczynska).
1853.
Oil on canvas, 131 x 163.5 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: f. Winterhalter / 1853.
Warsaw: National Museum.
(Salon 1855; Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.482)

[53kr-b] Countess Elzbieta Krasinska (1820-76, née Countess Branicka).
Ca. 1852-1853, Baden-Baden.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated as painted in 1853.
Luzk (Ukraine): Museum of Fine Arts.
(Wild 1894, 43; BvR 2015: no.482a)

53lu Lubomisrka

[53lu] Princess Cecilia Lubomirska (1831-1904, née Countess Zamoyska).
1853, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 66.0 x 55.0 cm.
Signed, dated and inscribed lower centre: fr Winterhalter / Paris 1853.
Wroclaw: Muzeum Narodowe.
(BvR 2015: no.483a)

[53me-a] Friedrich Wilhelm Großherzog von Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1819-1904).
1853, London.
Oil on canvas, 63.5 x 50.5 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: f Winterhalter / 1853.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 42; BvR 2015: no.484)

[53me-b] Adolf Prinz von Mecklenbburg-Strelitz (1848-1904).
Ca. 1853-55.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 42 as [Le Grand Duc de Mecklenbourg] Son fils; BvR 2015: no.485)

488 53 Prussia c

[53pr] Augusta Prinzessin von Preussen (1811-90, née Prinzessin von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, later Empress of Germany & Queen of Prussia).
1853, London.
Oil on canvas, 63.2 x 50.8 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: f Winterhalter / 1853.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 40; BvR 2015: no.488)

[53ra] Princess Sophia Alexandrovna Radziwill (1806-89, née Princess Urusova).
Ca. 1853.
Medium unknown (presumably a watercolour).
Present location unknown.
(BvR 2015: no.487)

[53wo] Princess Maria Vasilievna Worontzova (1819-95, née Princess Troubetzkaia).
Ca. 1853-55.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 42 as La Princesse Marie Woronzoff; BvR 2015: no.491)

54ba Baden

[54ba] Sophie Wilhelmine Großherzogin von Baden (1801-65, née Princess of Sweden).
1854.
Oil on canvas, 129.0 x 91.0 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: fr Winterhalter 1854.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 45; BvR 2015: no.492)

[54be] Claire-Mélanie Jaubert, Comtesse Benoîst d’Azy (1832-1910).
Ca. 1854-58.
Oil on canvas.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 42 as Mme Banoit d’Azy; BvR 2015: no.493)

[54fr-a] Eugénie, Empress of the French (1826-1920, née Condessa de Teba, etc.) in an Eighteenth-Century Dress.
1854, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 73.7 cm.
Signed, dated and inscribed lower right: fr Winterhalter Paris 1854.
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(BvR 2015: no.494)

[54fr-b] Eugénie, Empress of the French (1826-1920), née Condessa de Teba, etc.).
1854, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 125.0 x 95.0 cm.
Signed, dated and inscribed lower centre: f Winterhalter Paris / 1854.
Houston, TX: Museum of Fine Arts.
(Salon 1855; BvR 2015: no.495)

[54fr-c] Maria-Francisca, Duquesa de Alba (1825-60, née María Francisca de Sales de Palafox Portocarrero de Guzmán y Kirkpatrick, Duquesa de Peñaranda de Duero, etc.).
1854, Paris.
Oil on canvas, oval, 130 x 95 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: fr Winterhalter 1854
Madrid: Fundacion Casa de Alba, Palacio Liria.
(BvR 2015: no.495a)

[54gr-a] Arthur, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942).
1854, London.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown (image known from a lithograph).
(BvR 2015: no.496)

54gr-b 1854 Leopold

[54gr-b] Leopold, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland, Duke of Albany (1853-82).
1854, London.
Oil on canvas, 75.6 cm x 88.9 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: f Winterhalter 1854.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(BvR 2015: no.497)

Royal Collection

[54gr-c] Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
Ca. 1854
Watercolour and pencil on paper.
Signed lower right: fr Winterhalter
Present location unknown.

54ma-a Singh

[54ma-a] Duleep Singh, Maharajah of Lahore (1837-93).
1854, London.
Oil on canvas, 203.8 x 109.5 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: f Winterhalter 1854.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(BvR 2015: no.498)

[54ma-b] Duleep Singh, Maharajah of Lahore (1837-93).
1854, London.
Watercolour over pencil, 22 x 16.5 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: fr Winterhalter / 14 July 1854
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.499)

500 54 Duleep Singh Winterhalter

[54ma-c] Duleep Singh, Maharajah of Lahore (1837-93).
1854, London.
Watercolour, 28.8 x 18.7 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: f Winterhalter / 15 July 1854
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(BvR 2015: no.500)

[54mu] Malcy Berthier de Wagram, Princesse Murat (1832-84).
1854, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 73.0 x 60.0 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: fr Winterhalter 1854.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 42; BvR 2015: no.502)

[54po-a] Pedro V, King of Portugal (1837-61).
1854, London.
Oil on canvas, 138.4 x 94.9 cm.
Signed and dated: f Winterhalter 1854.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 53; BvR 2015: no.503)

[54po-b] Infante Luis of Portugal, Duke of Oporto (1838-89, later King of Portugal).
1854, London.
Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 61 cm.
Signed: f Winterhalter.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 53; BvR 2015: no.504)

[54po-c] Countess Katarzyna Potocka (1825-1907, née Countess Branicka).
1854, Baden.
Oil on canvas, 116.0 x 85.5 cm.
Signed and dated: fr Winterhalter 1854.
Warsaw: National Museum.
(Wild 1894, 42; BvR 2015: no.505)

[54po-d] Countess Katarzyna Potocka (1825-1907, née Countess Branicka).
1854.
Oil on canvas, 75.0 x 56.0 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: fr. Winterhalter 1854.
Warsaw: National Museum (on deposit at the Museum-Palace at Lancucie).
(Wild 1894, 42; BvR 2015: no.506)

[54po-e] Countess Katarzyna Potocka (1825-1907, née Countess Branicka).
Ca. 1854-56.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown (image known from a copy).
(Wild 1894, 42; BvR 2015: no.507)

508 1854 Winterhalter Prussia

[54pr-a] Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen (1797-1888, later Emperor of Germany & King of Prussia).
1854, Coblenz.
Gouache and watercolour on paper, 30.0 x 20.0 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: f. Winterhalter / 1854.
Present location unknown (image known from a lithograph).
(BvR 2015: no.508)

Royal Collection

[54pr-b] Augusta Prinzessin von Preussen (1811-90, later Empress of Germany & Queen of Prussia, née Prinzessin von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach).
1854, Coblenz.
Watercolour on paper.
Signed and dated lower right: fr Winterhalter / 1854.
Present location unknown (image known from a lithograph).
(BvR 2015: no.509)

510 1854 Winterhalter Prussia

[54pr-c] Frederick Wilhelm Kronprinz von Preußen (1831-88, later Emperor of Germany & King of Prussia).
1854, Coblenz.
Gouache and watercolour on paper, 34.0 x 22.0 cm.
Signed lower right: fr Winterhalter.
Present location unknown (image known from a lithograph).
(BvR 2015: no.510)

2931713a

[54pr-d] Luise Prinzessin von Preussen (1838-1923, later Großherzogin von Baden).
1854, Coblenz.
Watercolour and pencil on paper.
Signed and dated lower right: fr Winterhalter / 1854.
Present location unknown (image known from a lithograph).
(BvR 2015: no.511a)

[54re] Mlle Valentine Mathieu de la Redorte (1834-89, later Comtesse Cornudet des Chomettes).
Ca. 1854.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 42 as Mlle de Redorte (Madame Connudet); BvR 2015: no.501)

[54sa-a] Ernst II Fürst von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1818-93).
1854.
Pencil on paper, 17.5 x 14.0 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: fr. Winterhalter 1854
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.512)

[54sa-b] Alexandrina Fürstin von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1820-1904, née Prinzessin von Baden).
1854.
Pencil on paper, 17.5 x 14.0 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: fr. Winterhalter 1854
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.513)

54sh-a 54sh-a Shouvalova

[54sh-a] Countess Sophia Mikhailovna Shouvalova (1823-79, née Princess Worontzova).
1854.
Oil on canvas, 115.5 x 89.0 cm.
Signed and dated lower centre right: fr Winterhalter 1854.
Sankt Blasien: Kreizmuseum (on loan from Landesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart).
(Wild 1894, 41; BvR 2015: no.489)

[54sh-b] Countess Sophia Mikhailovna Shouvalova (1823-79, née Princess Worontzova).
Ca. 1853-54.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 41 as La Comtesse Sophie Schouvaloff. 2; BvR 2015: no.490)

54wy Putbus - Copy

[54wy] Clothilde Gräfin von Wylich und Lottum (1809-94, née Gräfin und Herrin von und zu Putbus).
1854, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 82.0 x 63.0 cm.
Signed, dated and inscribed lower left: fr Winterhalter / Paris 1854.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 43; BvR 2015: no.513a)

55ba Baden

[55ba] Friedrich I Prinz-Regent von Baden (1826-1907, later Großherzog von Baden).
1855, Karlsruhe.
Oil on canvas, 142.0 x 100.0 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: fr Winterhalter 1855.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 46; BvR 2015: no.514)

[55bo] Anne Dolfuss, Baronne de Bourgoing (1837-1917).
1855, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 114.0 x 98.0 cm.
Signed, dated and inscribed lower left: fr Winterhalter / Paris 1855.
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.515)

55fr-a Eugenie

[55fr-a] Eugénie, Empress of the French, with her Ladies-in-Waiting.

Seated with the Empress Eugénie (in white dress with lilac bows), are, from left to right:
–     Anne Debelle, Princesse d’Essling (1802-87), Grande-Maîtresse
–     Jane Thorne, Baronne de Pierres (1821-73), Dame du Palais
–     Louise Poitelon du Tarde, Vicomtesse de Lezay-Marnesia (1826-91), Dame du Palais
–     Adrienne de Villeneuve-Bargemont, Marquise de Montebello  (1826-70),  Dame du Palais
–     Pauline van der Linden d’Hooghvorst, Duchesse de Bassano  (1814-67),  Dame d’Honneur
–     Nathalie de Ségur, Baronne de Malaret  (1827-1910), Dame du Palais
–     Claire Emilie MacDonnel, Marquise de Las Marismas del Guadalquivir  (1817-1905), Dame du Palais
–     Anne Mortier de Trévise, Marquise de la Tour Maubourg  (1829-1900),  Dame du Palais

1855, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 300.0 x 420.0 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: fr Winterhalter / 1855.
Compiègne: Musée National du Château.
(Salon 1855; Wild 1894, 46; BvR 2015: no.516)

[55fr-b] Study for Eugénie, Empress of the French, with her Ladies-in-Waiting.
1855, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 40.0 cm.
Donaueschingen: Joachim Egon Fürst zu Fürstenberg.
(BvR 2015: no.517) NOTE: The ninth Dame du Palais appearing in this sketch is most certainly Léonie Bugeaud de la Piconerie d’Isly, Comtesse de Feray (1825-89), who left the service in January 1855 and thus is absent from the final picture.

55fr-c Eugenie

[55fr-c] Study for Eugénie, Empress of the French, with her Ladies-in-Waiting.
1855, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 38.2 x 46.5 cm.
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.519)

[55fr-d] Study for Eugénie, Empress of the French, with her Ladies-in-Waiting.
1855, Paris.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(BvR 2015: no. 520)

55fr-e Eugenie

[55fr-e] Study for Eugénie, Empress of the French, with her Ladies-in-Waiting.
1855, Paris.
Pencil drawing, 12.7 x 16.8 cm
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.518)

55fr-f Eugenie

[55fr-f] Study for Eugénie, Empress of the French, with her Ladies-in-Waiting.
1855, Paris.
Pencil drawing, 14.5 x 23 cm.
Inscribed extensively in the margin lower centre.
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.518a)

55fr-g Eugenie c

[55fr-g] Eugénie, Empress of the French (1826-1920, née Condessa de Teba, etc.).
Ca. 1855-57.
Watercolour, 33.0 x 27.9 cm.
Signed lower right: fr Winterhalter.
Compiègne: Musée National du Château.
(BvR 2015: no.521)

[55gr-a] Victoria, Queen of Great Britain & Ireland (1819-1901).
1855, London.
Watercolour on paper, 38.2 x 26.7 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: fr Winterhalter / 1855.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(BvR 2015: no.522)

[55gr-b] Prince Albert the Prince Consort (1819-61).
1855, London.
Watercolour, 38.3 x 26.7 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: fr Winterhalter / 1855.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(BvR 2015: no.523)

524 1855 Victoria

[55gr-c] Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain & Ireland (1840-1901, later Empress of Germany & Queen of Prussia).
1855, London.
Watercolour, 39.0 x 30.3 cm.
Signed lower right: fr Winterhalter.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(BvR 2015: no.524)

[55gr-d] Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain & Ireland (1840-1901, later Empress of Germany & Queen of Prussia). 
1855, London.
Watercolour on paper, 46 x 35 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: fr. Winterhalter 1855.
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.525)

[55gr-e] Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain & Ireland (1840-1901, later Empress of Germany & Queen of Prussia).
1855, London.
Watercolour on paper, 30.48 x 27.94 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: fr Winterhalter / 1855.
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.525a)

[55gr-f] Arthur, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942).
1855, London.
Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 40.6 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: fr Winterhalter / 1855.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(BvR 2015: no.526)

[55gr-g] Leopold, Prince of Great Britain & Ireland, Duke of Albany (1853-82).
1855, London.
Oil on canvas, 78.4 x 65.1 cm.
Signed and dated: fr Winterhalter / 1855. 
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(BvR 2015: no.527)

[55ho-a] Feodora Fürstin zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1807-72, née Prinzessin zu Leiningen).
1855, London.
Oil on canvas, oval, 65.4 x 52.4 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: fr. Winterhalter / 1855. 
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 40; BvR 2015: no.528)

[55ho-b] Feodora Prinzessin von Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1839-72, later Fürstin von Sachsen-Meiningen).
1855, London.
Oil on canvas, 35.6 x 30.8 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: fr Winterhalter / 1855.
Collection of HM King Charles III.
(Wild 1894, 40, 42; BvR 2015: no.529)

[55ho-c] Viktor Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1833-91).
1855, London.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Wild 1894, 40; BvR 2015: no.530)

531 55 Krasinski_1

[55kr-a] Children of Countess Elzbieta Krasinska (1820-76, née Countess Branicka): Count Wladislaw Krasinski (1844-73), Count Sigismund Krasinski (1846-64), Countess Maria Krasinska (1850-84, later Countess Raczynska), and Countess Elzbieta Krasinska (1853-57).
1855, Baden-Baden.
Watercolour.
Signed and dated lower left: fr Winterhalter 1855.
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.531)

531a 55 Krasinski (2)_1

[55kr-b] Children of Countess Elzbieta Krasinska (1820-76, née Countess Branicka): Count Wladislaw Krasinski (1844-73), Count Sigismund Krasinski (1846-64), Countess Maria Krasinska (1850-84, later Countess Raczynska), and Countess Elzbieta Krasinska (1853-57).
1855, Baden-Baden.
Watercolour, 12.7 x 15.25 cm.
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.531)

55od Odescalchi 1

[55od] Principessa Sofia Odescalchi (1821-86, née Countess Branicka).
Ca. 1855-1857.
Oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm.
Present location unknown (image known from a copy).
(Wild 1894, 43, 48; BvR 2015: no.591)

[55sc] Alma Fürstin von Schoenach-Carolath (1822-87, née Freiin von Fricks).
Ca. 1855.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown (image known from a lithograph).
(BvR 2015: no.532)

55wu-a Olga Wuerttemberg

[55wu-a] Olga Kronprinzessin von Württemberg (1822-92, née Grand Duchess of Russia).
Ca. 1854-55, Stuttgart.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown (image known from a photograph).
(Wild 1894, 45; BvR 2015: no.566b)

55wu-b Winterhalter

[55wu-b] Olga Kronprinzessin von Württemberg (1822-92, née Grand Duchess of Russia).
Ca. 1854-55, Stuttgart.
Oil on canvas.
Private Collection.
(Wild 1894, 45; BvR 2015: no.566c)

55wu-c Wurttemberg

[55wu-c] [attributed] Study for Olga Kronprinzessin von Württemberg (1822-1892, née Grand Duchess of Russia). 
Ca. 1854-1855, Stuttgart.
Watercolour,
Private Collection.

[55zw-a] Portrait of a Lady.
Ca. 1855-57.
Oil on canvas
Present location unknown.
(BvR 2015: no.533)

[55zw-b] Portrait of a Lady.
Early to mid 1850s.
Oil on canvas, 61.0 x 47.5 cm
Signed lower centre: fr Winterhalter.
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.534)

[55zw-e] Portrait of a Lady.
Ca. 1850s.
Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 32.5 cm.
Signed with initials left below centre: fr W
St Petersburg: The State Hermitage.
(BvR 2015: no.536)

55zw-f Lady

[55zw-f] Portrait of a Lady.
Ca. 1840s – 1850s.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Winterhalter Album 1891, no.6; BvR 2015: no.536a)

55zw-g Lady

[55zw-g] Portrait of a Lady.
Ca. 1840s – 1850s.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Winterhalter Album 1891, no.7; BvR 2015: no.536b)

55zw-h Lady (2)

[55zw-h] Portrait of a Lady.
Ca. 1840s – 1850s.
Oil on canvas.
Private Collection.
(Winterhalter Album 1891, no.10; BvR 2015: no.536c)

55zw-i Lady

[55zw-i] Portrait of a Lady.
Ca. 1840s – 1850s.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(Winterhalter Album 1891, no.7; BvR 2015: no.536d)

[55zz-a] A Folio of Sketches.
Ca. 1855-1856.
Twenty two sheets from a sketchbook, with forty-one studies, ten full watercolours, twenty one coloured wash, the rest pencil, each sheet 12.2 x 16.8 cm.
Some inscribed and dated (18)55 or (18)56, some numbered, with a letter written by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder (1784-1848), all bound in green leather boards, inscribed: WINTERHALTER / CROQUIS ANGLAIS / 1855-1856.
Private Collection.
(BvR 2015: no.537a)

[55zz-b] View of the Isle of Wight (I).
Ca. 1850s.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(BvR 2015: no.537b)

[55zz-c] View of the Isle of Wight (II).
Ca. 1850s.
Oil on canvas.
Present location unknown.
(BvR 2015: no.537c)

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