"Portrait of Princess Kotschoubey"
Franz Xaver Winterhalter (St. Blasien 1805- Frankfurt 1873) Oil on canvas, coeval frame. This extraordinary female portrait, painted in a truly unsurpassed way, is evidently the work of the famous German master FX Winterhalter, one of the greatest court painters in post-Napoleonic Europe. It is a splendid representation of the Ukrainian princess Kotschoubey, residing in a majestic palace in Nice on the French Riviera, then an important Russian colony. The painting, portrays the princess at a young age, (she will be immortalized later in 1860 in a famous painting now in the Baltimore museum dressed in black - see photo), and is presented in all its exceptional