Painting Name | Likeness of a Girl |
Painter Name | Friedrich von Amerling |
Completion Date | 1837 |
Size | 64 x 51 cm |
Technique | Oil |
Material | Canvas |
Current Location | Residenzgalerie Salzburg |
From the early 1830s to approximately 1850 Amerling was Vienna’s most celebrated portraitist. A likeness, almost identical to this portrait and entitled Modest Susanna, was executed in 1837.
The portrait represents an example of one of Amerling’s favourite compositional schemata to position the bare-backed sitter, turned away from the beholder.