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Wieńczysława Barczewska, Madame de Jurjewicz
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805–1873)
1860
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
156.1 x 124 cm (61 7/16 x 48 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds bequeathed by Genevieve Gray Young in memory of Patience Young and Patience Gray Young
Accession Number1998.396
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Though this work recalls earlier aristocratic portraits, its subject’s disheveled locks place it squarely in the mid‑19th century: a post‑Romantic glamour shot of the kind that made Winterhalter famous. He painted royalty—Queen Victoria of England and Empresses Eugénie of France and Elizabeth of Austria—as well as the glittering reaches of Parisian society, to which this sitter belonged. Like many Polish aristocrats of the period, Madame de Jurjewicz spent most of her life in French exile.
Signed
Signed and dated F. WINTERHALTER/PARIS 1860
Provenance1928, Comtesse Jean de Quélen, France [see note 1]. By 1936 until at least 1988, Bussière collection, France [see note 2]. 1998, Konrad O. Bernheimer, Munich; 1998, sold by Bernheimer to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 21, 1998)
NOTES:
[1] She lent this to "L'exposition Winterhalter (Portraits de Dames du Second Empire)" (Jacques Seligmann et Fils, Paris, May 25 - June 15, 1928), cat. no. 14. [2] The Baronne de Bussière lent this to the exhibition "Winterhalter" (Knoedler, London, December 3-16, 1936), cat. no. 19 and the Baron de Bussière lent it to the exhibition "Franz Xaver Winterhalter and the Courts of Europe, 1830-1870" (National Portrait Gallery, London, and Petit Palais, Paris, 1987-1988), cat. no. 62.
NOTES:
[1] She lent this to "L'exposition Winterhalter (Portraits de Dames du Second Empire)" (Jacques Seligmann et Fils, Paris, May 25 - June 15, 1928), cat. no. 14. [2] The Baronne de Bussière lent this to the exhibition "Winterhalter" (Knoedler, London, December 3-16, 1936), cat. no. 19 and the Baron de Bussière lent it to the exhibition "Franz Xaver Winterhalter and the Courts of Europe, 1830-1870" (National Portrait Gallery, London, and Petit Palais, Paris, 1987-1988), cat. no. 62.