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Portrait of Ivan Grigorevich, Count Chernyshev
Heinrich Friedrich Füger (German, 1751–1818)
c. 1785
- Medium
- watercolor on ivory in a later gilt metal and enamel frame
- Classification
- Portrait Miniature
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.); Diameter of frame: 13.1 cm (5 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Germany, 18th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- The Edward B. Greene Collection
- 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 Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Heinrich Füger, known as the "Cosway of Vienna," was born in Germany and studied in Italy and Vienna, where he became a court painter to the imperial family. Like Cosway, Füger drew his clientele from aristocratic circles. However Füger was less flamboyant than Cosway, capable of capturing the sitter's individual character and personality.
