Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden (1801-1865) (1831): Art, History and Details

Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden (1801-1865) (1831) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805–1873).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Sophie Guillemette (1801-1865), daughter of Gustavus IV Adolphus of Sweden, was the wife of Grand Duke Leopold of Baden. Winterhalter was her drawing instructor and made several portraits of both the duke and the duchess before leaving for London to become the most celebrated portrait painter of his time.

Object facts

• Title: Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden (1801-1865)
• Date: 1831
• Creator attribution: Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805–1873)
• Culture: Germany, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on fabric
• Dimensions: Framed: 57.5 x 46.5 x 10 cm (22 5/8 x 18 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 39.1 x 28.5 cm (15 3/8 x 11 1/4 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1979.43

Collection credit

The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, “Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection is on View in Year in Review Exhibition,” February 7, 1980, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
• Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99.
• Lurie, Ann Tzeutschler. “Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Portrait of Crescentia, Countess Zichy (later Countess Széchenyi) with a Parrot and a Camellia in a Mountainous Landscape.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 1 (1994): 3-17.

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