{"product_id":"antique-german-historical-portrait-oil-painting-woman-red-dress-1870-type-new","title":"*RESERVED* Antique German Historical Costume Portrait Oil Painting Woman in Red, Circa 1870","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA young woman stands full length in a Gothic hall, dressed in 17th-century revival costume: a black velvet bodice with slashed sleeves and white linen undersleeves, a wide pleated collar, a lace cap, and a deep crimson skirt that trails across a checkerboard marble floor. Behind her a stained glass lancet window catches the light and a pointed arch opens to a fire lit corridor. This is a historicist costume piece, the kind of academic genre portrait that dressed a contemporary model in Renaissance finery. The canvas carries a Munich colourman's stamp reading \"Richard Wurm, München\" and a Brussels framer's label on the reverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unidentified\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | No visible signature. The reverse bears a stamped colourman's mark reading \"Richard Wurm, München\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Full-length portrait of a woman in 17th-century revival costume in a Gothic interior\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European, the canvas bearing a Munich colourman's stamp\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]Age | Circa 1880. The Munich colourman's stamp of Richard Wurm dates the canvas to the firm's active years, 1863 to about 1925, and the dress treatment, academic handling, and stretcher and canvas construction place it in the last quarter of the 19th century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Canvas Size | 14 in. W x 23 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 18.5 in. W x 28 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Upright rectangular, full-length figure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Period giltwood frame with egg-and-dart and beaded moulding. Some rubbing and minor high-point losses consistent with age\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]School or Movement | Historicism. A 19th-century academic current that revived the dress, settings, and manner of earlier periods, here the 17th century. Painters set contemporary models in Renaissance costume and architectural interiors, drawing on the prestige of the Old Masters while working in the polished, tightly finished technique taught in the European academies. The mode was popular across Germany, the Low Countries, and France from roughly 1850 to 1890.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Relined canvas on a keyed wooden stretcher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Provenance | Bearing a framer's label for Encadrements C. Artiges \u0026amp; Fils, 10 Rue Gray, Brussels, on the reverse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe painting presents well overall, with a legible, richly colored surface and good contrast between the crimson skirt, the black bodice, and the pale collar and cap. Craquelure is visible across the surface throughout, consistent with age, and is most apparent in the darker passages of the background and the skirt. The canvas has been relined, which has stabilized it against further age-related movement. The relining means any labels or inscriptions once on the reverse of the original canvas are no longer accessible, though the colourman's stamp remains visible through the lining. There is some surface grime and a slightly uneven varnish typical of a work of this age. I have not identified specific areas of retouch from the photographs, and I am not making a claim either way on that point. The stretcher is keyed and sound. A pencil size notation is present on the stretcher bar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame is a period giltwood moulding with an egg-and-dart outer band and a beaded inner edge. It shows rubbing to the gilt at the high points and along the outer edges, with minor losses at the corners, all consistent with age and honest wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePlease review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#5\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482654933270,"sku":"AMD-03443","price":2100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-9529.jpg?v=1785429699","url":"https:\/\/austynmariedesign.com\/products\/antique-german-historical-portrait-oil-painting-woman-red-dress-1870-type-new","provider":"Austyn Marie Design","version":"1.0","type":"link"}