Artwork details · 2026-06-26

Florinda

by Franz Xavier Winterhalter · 1853

Florinda by Franz Xavier Winterhalter

Artist

Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865).

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Artwork

Florinda is an oil-on-canvas painting by German painter and lithographer Franz Xaver Winterhalter. It was completed in 1853 and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it is not on display. It featured at the Salon of 1853 in Paris.

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Quick facts

Artist
Franz Xavier Winterhalter
Year
1853
Movement
Classicism
Country
Germany
Location
Metropolitan Museum of Art