Countess Széchenyi

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Countess Széchenyi

Ferdinand Georg WaldmüllerLinkedCulture matchlcp-2c30eddc7bfa

Date
1828
Medium
oil on fabric
Culture
Austria
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
154244

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This portrait typifies painting in Vienna between 1815 and 1865, an era known as the Biedermeier period, during which the Habsburg government promoted positive artistic depictions of Viennese life and culture. The mountains in the background express both the artist's romantic fascination with nature and patriotic devotion to his Austrian homeland. The sitter, Crescentia Seilern, was a prestigious member of the aristocracy who married Hungarian reformist patriot István Széchenyi.

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Credit line
John L. Severance Fund
Provenance
Before 1906: Possibly Dr. Izidor Deutsch [d. 1906], Budapest | Probably until 1925: Maximilian Mauthner, Schloss Feistritz, Wechsel, Austria | 1925: (Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, June 15, 1925, lot 69) | Before 1940: Possibly Dr. Paul Eger [1881-1947], Basel | 1940: (Sale, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, Nov. 7-9, 1940, lot 1250, sold to Galerie Nathan) | 1940-: (Galerie Nathan, Zürich) | By 1970: (Erich von Kreibig, Munich) | 1972: (Sale, Neumeister, Munich, Sept. 20-22, 1972, lot 1689 | From 1972?: (Galerie Grünwald, Munich) | By 1987?: Private collection, Munich | 1988: (David Carritt, Ltd./Artemis Group, London, and Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1988-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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