Paintings
Countess Széchenyi
Permanent ExhibitionPaintingPortrait
Details
- Author / creator
- Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793–1865)
- Object type
- Painting
- Date or period
- 1828
- Dimensions summary
- Framed: 121.5 × 102 × 10.5 cm; Unframed: 97.8 × 78.5 cm
- Support
- Other
- Paint medium
- Oil
- Place of origin
- Austria
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1988
About this object
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.
Materials and technique
Oil on fabric
Signature and marks
Signed below the parrot: Waldmül[. . .] 1828
