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Albert Gräfle
Portrait of a Lady, 1842
About the object
The half-figure portrait depicts a woman wearing a brown fur stole and looped plaits – fashionable during the Biedermeier period – in front of and behind her ears. It was probably painted in Paris, where Albert Gräfle lived from 1840 and received commissions as a portraitist through the recommendation of his friend and teacher, Franz Xaver Winterhalter.