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If Photoshop was invented in the XIX century
In those days, when a private photo shoot ladies could only dream of, the object of desire of every self-respecting aristocrat was a beautifully written portrait. Profitable to emphasize the dignity and skillfully hide flaws, passing all the charm of the ladies was on forces far not every painter. One of those is expertly managed, was Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Franz Xaver Winterhalter)
Varvara Rimsky-Korsakov, 1864.
I'm sure almost everyone has ever seen in his life or reproductions of original portraits of beautiful ladies of noble blood of the XIX century, located in the Hermitage and other well-known museums and galleries in Europe. They are all united by one thing: the lack of flaws.
Princess Victoria, 1867.
Once in 1835, Winterhalter painted a portrait of Grand Duke Leopold of Baden, he was appointed to his court painter. With this portrait began his international career. The royal and aristocratic families of England, France, Belgium, Russia tried to order their portraits only his.
Empress Maria Alexandrovna, in 1857.
Despite the enormous popularity and demand, the artist has not been accepted into the elite of famous painters of his time. Colleagues believed Winterhalter work too sentimental and deliberately embellish the actual proportions of the face and ordered it.
Barbara Countess Musin-Pushkin, 1857.
Honing his skills from year to year, Winterhalter could write a perfect image of the ordered it, smoothing out the shortcomings, while retaining an incredible similarity to the original.
Branitskaya Catherine, Countess Potocka, 1854.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter will always be a great master of portraiture.
Elizabeth of Bavaria, Austria and Queen of Hungary, 1864.
Carmen Aguado, the Duchesse de Montmorency, 1860.
Alexandra, Princess of Wales, in 1864.
Adelina Patti, 1863.
Countess Olga Shuvalov, 1858.
According to the materials: kulturologia, wikipedia, gallerix
via gallerix.ru/storeroom/1941543836/#more