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Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden (1801-1865)

Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden (1801-1865)

1831
(German, 1805–1873)
Germany, 19th century
oil on fabric
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.)
The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection 1979.43
Location: 219 19th Century European

Description

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.
  • Grand Dukes of Baden. London sale, Christie's, 24 November 1978 (lot 74, repr.), Property of a Lady: Portrait of Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden, £5.500, to Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Ltd., London. Purchased by the CMA in 1979.
  • 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. archive.org
    Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. Reproduced: cat. no. 40, p. 71; Mentioned: p. 59 www.jstor.org
    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. Mentioned: p. 16 www.jstor.org
    Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 642-644, Vol. II, no. 225
  • Museum of Fine Arts.Houston, TX (4/17/2016 - 8/14/2016): "High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter"
    High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (organizer) (April 17-August 14, 2016).
    Franz Xaver Winterhalter and the Courts of Europe, 1830-70. National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (October 30, 1987-January 10, 1988); Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (February 11-May 7, 1988).
    Franz Xaver Winterhalter 1987. 13, 25, 212, 219, 225, no. 4, 74 (repr.), 176 (exhibited in London only). This catalogue gives an annotated version of the list of Winterhalter's oeuvre originally compiled by Franz Wild in 1894.
    Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).
    Possibly Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle (according to "Verzeichnis der Gemälde für die Winterhalter-Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle zu Baden [October 1873]," published in Wild 1894, 57, no. 42, Porträt I. K. H. der Grossherzogin Sophie).
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