Miniature portrait of a beautiful noble lady is made according to the classical patterns of portraiture of the 19th century. Josef Kriehuber (1800 –1876) was an Austrian lithographer and painter. He made numerous portraits for nobility and government officials.

Size app.: 21,2 x 17,2 cm (roughly 8,35 x 6,8 inches) with frame 29,7 x 25,6 cm (11,6 by 10,1 in) .

Very Good. Minimal wear. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 0,43 kg is going to measure some 1 kg volume weight packed for shipment.

Josef Kriehuber was born in Vienna, Austria on 14 December 1800. He was first trained by his brother Johann Kriehuber, then studied at the Vienna Academy under Hubert Maurer, then moved to Galicia, where he devoted himself to horse painting. Josef Kriehuber was the most important portrait lithographer of the Viennese Biedermeier period. Kriehuber is also noted for his studies of the Prater park. He taught at the Vienna Theresianum academy. Kriehuber was only 13 years old when he went to the art-class in the Imperial Academy in Vienna. There are but few well-known persons of that time who did not have their portrait made by Kriehuber. In 1860 he was hailed as first artist awarded the Franz Joseph Order in Austria. With the advances of photography, however, commissions fell off; Kriehuber's last years were overshadowed by poverty. He died on 30 May 1876, in his native city of Vienna. His final resting place, now an honorary grave is in Vienna's "Zentralfriedhof" (central cemetery). Significant collections of his works are in the Albertina (Vienna), and in the portrait collection of the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Since 1889 a street in Vienna-Margareten (Vienna's 5th district), has been named after Kriehuber.