Franz Xaver Winterhalter and Studio
MENZENSCHWAND, BADEN WÜRTTEMBERG 1805 - 1873 FRANKFURT
PORTRAIT OF CHARLOTTE OF BELGIUM, DAUGHTER OF KING LEOPOLD I
inscribed with the number 71 lower left; a red inventory stamp on the reverse of the canvas with intertwined initials LP surmounted by a crown (the cipher of Louis-Philippe, King of the French) and the number 6219; and inscribed Marie-Charlotte-Amélie-Auguste-Victoire-Clémentine-/Léopoldine, Princesse de Belgique,/Fille de Léopolde, Roi des Belges, et de Louise-Marie-/Thérèse-Charlotte-Isabelle d'Orléans,/Née le 7 Juin 1840./Par Mr. F. Winterhalter.
oil on canvas
36 1/4 by 25 1/4 in.; 92.1 by 64.2 cm.
Sotheby's
This enchanting portrait of the young Princess Charlotte of Belgium was commissioned by her grandfather, King Louis-Philippe of France, in 1845 for the Château d’Eu, his summer residence on the coast of Normandy. The reverse of the canvas bears the King’s cipher and the number 6219 (fig. 1), corresponding to the original order as listed in the Rapport of 1845 (see Literature). It is a three-quarter length version of the full-length portrait of Charlotte commissioned by her father, Leopold I of Belgium, signed by Winterhalter and dated 1844, in Laeken Palace, Brussels.