Who painted “Empress Eugenie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting”?

“Empress Eugenie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting” was painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter in 1855. Where to see it: Château de Compiègne.

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Academic Art: smooth, glossy surfaces and idealised figures, usually from myth, the Bible or history; Realism shows ordinary people and Impressionism visible, broken strokes.

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. Wikipedia

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“Portrait of Napoleon III”, 1853
“Queen Victoria”, 1843
“Florinda”, 1853
“Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Courtly Gala Dress with Diamond Stars”, 1865
“Louis-Philippe I, King of the French (1773–1850)”, 1841
“The cousins: Queen Victoria and Victoire, Duchesse de Nemours”, 1852
“The Royal Family in 1846”, 1846
“Portrait of Barbara Dmitrievna Mergassov Rimsky-Korsakova”, 1864