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12032.
Attributed to Joseph Karl [Joseph Kaspar] Stieler
1781-1858 |
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Description
Portrait of a Young Girl, signed “Stieler” (lower rim)
Technique
Mixed media on ivory
Dimensions
4.6 x 3.2 cm
Notes
Oval-shaped in a decorated ivory frame.
Biography
b. Mainz, 1 Nov 1781; d. Munich, 9 April 1858. German painter. In 1798 he studied under Christoph Fesel (17371805) in Würzburg and in 1800 with Heinrich Füger in Vienna, where his style was strongly influenced by English portraiture. After he studied in Paris (18078) with François Gérard the influence of Neo-classicism became apparent in his work. He visited Italy in 1809, 1810 and 1812 to do commissioned portraits for various patrons, among them Prince Eugène de Beauharnais (1809; Munich, Bayer. Nmus.) and Joachim Murat, King of Naples (reg 180815). In 1812 he went to Munich where he did work for middle-class clients, the nobility and the royal family of Bavaria (e.g. the portrait of Maximilian I Joseph, 1816; Ellingen, Schloss). In 1820 he was appointed court painter to Ludwig I, King of Bavaria (reg 182548), and painted several portraits of him. In 1823 he helped co-found the Kunstverein in Munich. He was one of the most important portrait painters in the Neo-classical style, specializing particularly in studies of women, as seen in the 36 portraits commissioned by Ludwig I for the Schönheitsgalerie (182742; Munich, Schloss Nymphenburg). In his portraits for the middle classes and for the court he devised certain peculiarities of form. He painted various members of the royal houses of Austria, Prussia and Sweden, as well as members of the nobility in the duchies of Saxe-Altenberg, Saxe-Coburg and Hesse. His sitters also included some of the most important figures in the political and intellectual life of Germany in the first half of the 19th century. He painted the pendant portraits of Franz Brentano and Antonie Brentano (both 1808; Winkel, Brentanohaus), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1828; Munich, Neue Pin.) and Ludwig Tieck (1838; Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg), the geographer and botanist Alexander von Humboldt (1843; Potsdam, Schloss Charlottenhof) and the musician Ludwig van Beethoven (Bonn, Beethoven-Haus). After 1845 the classical elements in his paintings were sometimes combined with an application of colour typical of plein-air studies. He also painted genre pictures and religious scenes.
(The Grove Dictionary of Art).
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Portrait of a Young Girl
Estimate: $400/$600
Location: Israel
Number of Bids: 8
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