Emanuel Gottlieb LeutzeAmerican, 1816–1868The Countess
May one see it?
Unknown
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., United States
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
In The Countess, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze concentrated on capturing the handsome and serious features of his sitter; the unfinished, sketchy treatment and outlines of hands show the artist working out the details of his composition. Leutze was an itinerant portraitist in 1838, and the inscription below the portrait reveals that he painted this work either in a friend’s studio or a rented space. The painting’s rich brushwork and colors reflect the style of two popular portraitists in Philadelphia, Thomas Sully and Gilbert Stuart.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1979.44
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Image: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0
![Two Cavaliers [recto], Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, c. 1850s](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/bc1a68f4-e95d-4c5b-9e1c-f0ca648a2947/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
