#federico de madrazo y kuntz

[history-of-fashion]

1853 Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz - Baron and Baroness of Weisweiller

(Musée Bonnat-Helleu)

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La infanta Luisa Fernanda de Borbón, Duquesa de Montpensier or Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier, sister of Queen Isabella II of Spain (1851) by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (Spanish, 1815-1894), oil on canvas, 220 x 128 cm, Palacio Real de Madrid, Madrid

[royalty-nobility]

Alfonso XII

Artist: Federico De Madrazo y Kuntz (Spanish, 1815-1894)

Date: 1886

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

This is a posthumous portrait of the monarch. He appears standing, in full-length, and dressed in a simple captain-general's uniform, upon which he bears the grand laureate cross and sash of the military order of San Fernando (Saint Ferdinand), as well as the decorations of the Golden Fleece hanging from his collar and a cummerbund and a saber girdle around his waist. He poses inside a palatial hall, on a rich carpet, resting his hand on one of the splendid hard-stone tables kept in the Museo del Prado , on which we see the command baton and the feathered helmet of his uniform. In the shadows of the sumptuous architecture in the background, there is a niche with a statue of a medieval monarch – probably King Alfonso X the Wise, the immediate nominal predecessor of the monarch – and a medallion with the effigy of King Charles V.

Federico de Madrazo had already painted portraits of Alfonso XII on several occasions throughout the king's lifetime, according to the records in his inventory. However, this portrait was commissioned from the painter in 1886, the year following the king's death. It was intended for the Ministry of Public Works, which back then was home to the Contemporary Section of the Museo del Prado . It was immediately transferred to the Museum, probably with the purpose of being integrated within the Chronological Series of the Kings of Spain, a project initiated by José de Madrazo.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (Spanish, 1815-1894) Elizabeth Wethered Barringer, 1852 Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina

[resplendentoutfit]

Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (Italian, 1815-1894)• María Josefa del Águila Ceballos, Marquesa de Espeja • 1852

The dress worn in the portrait above features what is called a "bertha" neckline. It is usually made of lace or another thin fabric. It is generally flat and round, covering the low neckline of a dress, and accentuating a woman's shoulders. A bertha neckline was worn off the shoulders, often trimmed with deep lace (3″ – 6″). The style was most frequently worn by upper- and middle-class women during the Victorian era; a woman from the more common classes would seldom have shown that much flesh.

Ball gown, probably American • Silk, cotton • c. 1860 • Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, New York City

c. 1895

There was also this item, called the Bertha collar. It was made of lace and detachable so as to be utilized with different dresses.

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1860s dresses (from top to bottom) -

1862 Aleksandra Zatler, general’s wife, by Josef Simmler (location ?). From Merinok's Facebook pages 1440X1795.

1863 Rosa Guardiola, Baronesa de Andilla by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (private collection). From Wikimedia 1400X1804.

ca. 1865-1866 Afternoon dress (auctioned by Tessier-Sarou). From tumblr.com/fashionsfromthepast 1280X1920.

ca. 1867 Walking and visiting suit by Worth & Bobergh (Albany Institute of History and Art - Albany, New York, USA). From tumblr.com/history-of-fashion 1660X3072.

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«Después de haber examinado el despotismo en los libros de los filósofos, quisimos ver su aparición en el mundo. Para distinguirle de todo lo que no fuera él, quisimos averiguar cuál era su forma natural y primitiva; y habiendo observado que siempre que el gobierno es teocrático, el gobierno es despótico, que siempre que hay soberanía directa de Dios, hay esclavitud directa del hombre, nos creímos autorizados para afirmar que la teocracia es la forma natural y primitiva del despotismo en la historia.»

Donoso Cortés: Principios constitucionales aplicados al proyecto de Ley fundamental presentado a las Cortes por la comisión nombrada al efecto. Imprenta de la Compañía Tipográfica, págs. 100-101. Madrid, 1837.

TGO

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[dreamconsumer]

Queen Isabel II and her daughter, Infanta Isabel. Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz.

[dumbbitchhour]

Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Juan Perea, 1839 x

[iambitzy]

"Leocadia Zamora y Quesada"

{1847}

By ~ Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz

[history-of-fashion]

1863 Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz - Portrait of Rosa Guardiola, Baroness of Andilla

(Private collection)

[diioonysus]

art + bracelets

[royalty-nobility]

La Infanta Luisa Fernanda de Borbón, Duquesa de Montpensier

Artist: Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (Spanish, 1815–1894)

Date: 1851

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Royal Palace of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Description

María Luisa Fernanda de Borbón y Borbón-Two Sicilies ( Madrid , January 30, 1832 - Seville , February 2, 1897) was an Infanta of Spain from birth and Duchess of Montpensier by marriage.

Infanta María Luisa Fernanda was the second and last daughter of King Ferdinand VII and his wife, Queen Maria Cristina . She was born at the Royal Palace in Madrid . She was baptized at the Palace of Aranjuez . She was the paternal granddaughter of Charles IV of Spain and Maria Luisa of Parma , and on her mother's side of King Francis I of the Two Sicilies and his wife, Maria Isabella of Bourbon , also an Infanta of Spain.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (Spanish, 1815–1894) The Continence of Scipio or The Clemency of Scipio, 1831 Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

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Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (1815-1894) "Leocadia Zamora y Quesada" (1847)

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1857 Condesa de Bernar by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao - Bilbao, Vizcaya-Bizkaia, Spain). From e.uskadi.eus/emsime/catalogo/museo-museo-de-bellas-artes-de-bilbao-/autoria-madrazo-federico-de-roma-1815-madrid-1894-/titulo-retrato-de-la-condesa-de-bernar/objeto-pintura-/ciuVerFicha/museo-58/ninv-15/44; fixed spots and upper corners w Pshop 3905X5050. The upper corners had intrusions from the frame that were overlaid with pasted content from nearby parts of the image.