Portrait of Duchess Fabiana Obuchowicz-Czapska

The portrait of Countess Fabiana Czapska is from the portraits of Count Czapski’s family that were painted in 1835 in Vilnius by Andreas Hintz (or Hintze), an artist of Prussian descent. Rough surfaces and soft textures are very suitable for drawing idealised images of people, reflecting objects and the forms of nature faithfully, and remind us today of coloured photographs. The delicately coloured compositions were in perfect harmony with the sunlit rooms of the hôtels particuliers of the time.