Princess Clémentine D'Orléans, Princess Augustus of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1817-1907) Dated 1853

Oil on canvas | 62.5 x 50.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 406631

Description

Princess Clémentine was the daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France. In 1843 she married Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Queen Victoria described her as 'a dear, clever, affectionate, open & rightminded & sensible person'. In 1848 she came to England when her family fled from France.

Inscribed on the back with the name of the sitter and as copied in 1853 by Corden from a portrait painted by Winterhalter in 1838.

Provenance

Painted for Queen Victoria; recorded in the Queen's Dressing Room at Buckingham Palace in 1876
People involved

Creator(s)

Search the collection William Corden the Younger (1819-1900)
(artist)

After
Search the collection Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73)
(artist)

Search the collection Thomas Ponsonby : London
(framemaker)

Commissioner(s)

Search the collection View the person page Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)

Subject(s)

Search the collection Princess Clementine of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1817-1907)
Physical properties

Medium and techniques

Oil on canvas

oil paint, canvas

Measurements

62.5 x 50.3 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)

81.1 x 70.1 x 7.0 cm (frame, external)
Groupings
Category
Paintings
Object type(s)
visual works
paintings
References

Other number(s)

OMV : Millar, O., 1992. The Victorian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 2 vols, Cambridge – OMV 982

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