Portrait of Amalie Auguste of Bavaria | |
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Artist | Joseph Karl Stieler |
Year | 1823 |
Type | Oil on canvas, portrait |
Dimensions | 203 cm× 133 cm(80 in× 52 in) |
Location | Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden |
Portrait of Amalie Auguste of Bavaria is an 1823 portrait painting by the German artist Joseph Karl Stieler. [1] [2] It depicts Princess Amalie Auguste of Bavaria. Stieler was the court painter to her father Maximilian, King of Bavaria from 1820. [3] This work was likely commissioned to celebrate the wedding of Amalie Auguste and John of Saxony held on 21 November 1822 in Saxony. The princess is shown wearing a yellow dress in the Empire silhouette style. She is shown standing on a staircase of a veranda at the with Lake Tegernsee behind her. Since 1817 Tegernsee Castle had been the summer residence of the Bavarian royal family, and Maximilian met Tsar Alexander and Emperor Francis there before the Congress of Verona. [4]
Amalie Auguste's husband succeeded to the throne as King of Saxony in 1854 and she became queen consort. The portrait is today in the collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden at the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden. [4]
Frederick Christian was the Prince-Elector of Saxony for 73 days in 1763. He was a member of the House of Wettin. He was the third but eldest surviving son of Frederick Augustus II, Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, by his wife, Maria Josepha of Austria.
Maximilian I Joseph was Duke of Zweibrücken from 1795 to 1799, prince-elector of Bavaria from 1799 to 1806, then King of Bavaria from 1806 to 1825. He was a member of the House of Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Zweibrücken, a branch of the House of Wittelsbach.
John was King of Saxony from 9 August 1854 until his death in 1873. He was a member of the House of Wettin. During his reign, Saxony became a part of the German Empire.
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