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Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden (1801-1865)
About the Artwork
Sophie Guillemette (1801-1865), daughter of Gustavus IV Adolphus of Sweden, was the wife of Grand Duke Leopold of Baden. Winterhalter was her drawing instructor and made several portraits of both the duke and the duchess before leaving for London to become the most celebrated portrait painter of his time.
Inscriptions
Signed lower left: Fr. Winterhalter f 1831
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980). Franz Xaver Winterhalter and the Courts of Europe, 1830-70. National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (October 30, 1987-January 10, 1988); Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (February 11-May 7, 1988). High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (organizer) (April 17-August 14, 2016).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805–1873)
- Date
- 1831
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 57.5 x 46.5 x 10 cm (22 5/8 x 18 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 39.1 x 28.5 cm (15 3/8 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- The Thomas L. Fawick Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1979.43
Provenance
Grand Dukes of Baden. London sale, Christie's, 24 November 1978 (lot 74, repr.), Property of a Lady: Portrait of Sophie Guillemette, Grand Duchess of Baden, £5.500, to Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Ltd., London. Purchased by the CMA in 1979.
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009555
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