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Countess Széchenyi
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller1828
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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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- Title: Countess Széchenyi
- Creator: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793–1865)
- Date Created: 1828
- Physical Dimensions: Framed: 121.5 x 102 x 10.5 cm (47 13/16 x 40 3/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Unframed: 97.8 x 78.5 cm (38 1/2 x 30 7/8 in.)
- Provenance: Possibly Dr. Izidor Deutsch [d. 1906], Budapest, Maximilian Mauthner, Schloss Feistritz, Wechsel, Austria, (Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, June 15, 1925, lot 69), Possibly Dr. Paul Eger [1881-1947], Basel, (Sale, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, Nov. 7-9, 1940, lot 1250, sold to Galerie Nathan), (Galerie Nathan, Zürich), (Erich von Kreibig, Munich), (Sale, Neumeister, Munich, Sept. 20-22, 1972, lot 1689, (Galerie Grünwald, Munich), Private collection, Munich, (David Carritt, Ltd./Artemis Group, London, and Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.57
- Medium: oil on fabric
- Inscriptions: Signed below the parrot: Waldmül[. . .] 1828
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: Austria, 19th century
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1988.57
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