Friedrich Amerling (Austrian, 1803–1887)
The Young Eastern Woman
1838
Friedrich von Amerling (1803–1887), one of Vienna's leading Biedermeier portraitists, painted this 'Young Oriental Woman' in the 1830s as an example of his fashionable Romantic-Orientalist subjects. The sitter's richly patterned headdress, the soft porcelain skin, and the limpid sidelong gaze typify the taste of Metternich-era Vienna for exotic female character heads. The oil on fabric is in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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