#Ferdinand Waldmüller

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865)

Rosen

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865) Ein Mädchen schmückt die Mutter Gottes mit einer Rose, 1836 Gemeindebezirk Wieden, Vienna

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian,1793-1865)

Still life with oysters, fish and exotic fruits, 1842

Oil

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

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Countess Széchenyi, 1828 Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

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Young Peasant Women With Three Children at the Window | 1840 Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

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Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany (1797-1870)

Artist: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865)

Date: 1833

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria

Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Leopold II[nb 1] (3 October 1797 – 29 January 1870) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1824 to 1859. He married twice; first to Maria Anna of Saxony, and after her death in 1832, to Maria Antonia of the Two-Sicilies. By the latter, he begat his eventual successor, Ferdinand. Leopold was recognised contemporarily as a liberal monarch, authorising the Tuscan Constitution of 1848, and allowing a degree of press freedom.

The Grand Duke was deposed briefly by a provisional government in 1849, only to be restored the same year with the assistance of Austrian troops, who occupied the state until 1855. Leopold attempted a policy of neutrality with regard to the Second Italian War of Independence but was expelled by a bloodless coup on 27 April 1859, just before the beginning of the war. The Grand Ducal family left for Bologna, papal territory since the Congress of Vienna.

Tuscany was occupied by soldiers of Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia for the duration of the conflict. The Armistice of Villafranca, agreed to between Napoleon III of France and Franz Joseph I of Austria on 11 July, provided for the return of the Lorraines to Florence, but Leopold himself was considered too unpopular to be accepted, and on 21 July 1859, he abdicated the throne in favour of his son, Ferdinand. Ferdinand was not, however, any more acceptable to the revolutionaries in control of Florence, and his accession was not proclaimed. Instead, the provisional government proclaimed the deposition of the House of Habsburg (16 August).

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Pfamgasse in St. Wolfgang painted by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793 - 1865)

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Parrots often turn up as props in European fruit/food feast still life paintings, such as these works by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865):

1. Fruit Still Life with an Amazon Parrot, 1824

🆔Turquoise-fronted Amazon (Amazona aestiva), native to South America

2. Still Life with Fruit and Parrot, 1831

🆔female Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus roratus), native to Australasia/Melanesia

(also note the fruiting pineapple plant in both!)

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian,1793-1865) • Fruit still life with an Amazon parrot • 1824

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865)

Rosen im Glas

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian, 1793-1865) Rosen im Glas, 1831 Gemeindebezirk Wieden, Vienna

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian,1793-1865)

Young lady in a white dress, 1842

Oil on canvas

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Still life with roses, candlestick and silver cup (1831) by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793– 1865).

Oil on wood.

Image and text information courtesy Belvedere.