Portraits of the Donors of the Monastery of Zábrdovice
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Joseph Johann Winterhalter
(Vöhrenbach, Black Forest, Germany, 1743–Znojmo, Moravia (Czech Republic), 1807)
NationalityGerman, Europe
Datecirca 1778-79
MediumPen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid
DimensionsSheet: 8 3/4 × 13 7/8 in. (22.2 × 35.2 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1438
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Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1438
On View
Not on viewWinterhalter was active in south Moravia, a frequent collaborator of Maulbertsch, and one of the last major figures in the Central European tradition of grand decoration. This is a preparatory study for an illusionistic fresco of the founders of the Premonstratensian Monastery at Zabrdovice (Czech Republic). His only signed and dated drawing, it reveals Winterhalter’s debt to Maulbertsch in the broad description, mobile light and iridescent color.
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