Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, The Countess
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Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

The Countess

1838

Current Collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
88 × 69 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-140322

In The Countess, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze concentrated on capturing the handsome and serious features of his sitter; the unfinished, sketchy treatment and outlines of hands show the artist working out the details of his composition. Leutze was an itinerant portraitist in 1838, and the inscription below the portrait reveals that he painted this work either in a friend’s studio or a rented space. Th…

Provenance

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase

Registry history

  • 1838 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum

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