Portrait of a Woman
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German, 1794-1872)
1821
- Medium
- Brush and brown wash and pen and brown ink, with graphite on ivory wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 22.7 × 20 cm (8 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Germany
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Settling in Rome in 1818, Schnorr von Carolsfeld became a member of the Nazarene Brotherhood there. Also known as the Brotherhood of Saint Luke, after the painter-evangelist, this group of German artists painted mostly religious subjects, reflecting their interest in the Italian Renaissance. Rendered with a fine line like that of Botticelli, this extraordinarily compelling lifelike portrait was of a close relative and remained in the family until acquired by the Art Institute.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
