Empress Eugenie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (Q3937441)

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movement: academic art (Q189458)
genre: portrait (Q134307)
artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Q168659)
collection: Château de Compiègne (Q516697)
location: Château de Compiègne (Q516697)
main subject: Eugènie de Montijo (Q157130)
material used: canvas (Q12321255) oil paint (Q296955)
commissioned by: Eugènie de Montijo (Q157130)
depicts: Eugènie de Montijo (Q157130) Pauline van der Linden d'Hooghvorst (Q15880599)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Joconde ID: M5009000486
Panorama de l'art ID: limperatrice-eugenie-entouree-des-dames-de-sa-cour

catalog URL: https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/paintings/the-empress-eugenie-surrounded-by-her-ladies-in-waiting/

information from the Château de Compiègne catalog

description: Official portraitist for the royal courts of Europe, Franz-Xavier Winterhalter was the favourite painter of the Empress Eugenie. Indeed, Eugenie most probably used her own personal fortune to pay for this renowned collective portrait representing the sovereign in 1855 surrounded by her ladies in waiting. Hung in Fontainebleau Palace during the Second Empire, the work […]

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