Painting
- Title:
- Countess Baumgarten
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1979.020.06
- Creator:
- Kellerhoven, Moritz (1758-1830)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Munich, Germany
- Date:
- circa 1790
- Description:
- Portrait of Maria Josepha Barbara Johanna Nepomucena Gabriele von Lerchenfeld-Siessbach-Prennberg, Countess of Baumgarten (1762-1816), attributed to Moritz Kellerhoven (1758-1830), c. 1790. Oil on canvas, mounted on aluminum. Three-quarter length seated portrait of a woman facing slightly left; eyes toward viewer. Sitter has brown hair worn up with long stands down over shoulders, and dark brown eyes. Wearing a white satin dress with lace trim, blue sash and hair ribbon with a plum color shawl. Leaning on a stone pedestal; right arm bent, head resting on index finger. Trees and foliage in background. Unsigned. Nameplate on frame: "COUNTESS BAUMGARTEN". Ink inscription on frame reverse written by Countess Rumford: "This picture is the late Countess of / Baumgarten, particular friend of Count Rumfords / The painter was Kellerhophe the same that / painted the Elector of Bavaria. She being in Munich. / (Present time 3d June 1852. Concord.)" Gilded gesso over wood frame with egg-and-dart exterior molding, interior beaded molding, rosettes at corners.
- Material:
- Textile
Aluminum - Dimensions:
- H-45 W-32 inches
- Provenance:
- Originally owned by Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford, who bequeathed her collection of family portraits to her cousin Joseph Burbeen Walker (1822-1913) in 1852. The portraits then passed to his son Charles R. Walker (1852-1922), and to his grandson Sheafe Walker, the donor.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Sheafe Walker
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