Gallery of BeautiesThe Nymphenburg Palace seen from its park
The Gallery of Beauties (German: Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 38 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and bourgeoisie of Munich, Germany, gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace.[1] All but two of the portraits were painted between 1827 – 1850 by Joseph Karl Stieler (appointed court painter in 1820), with two additional portraits created by Friedrich Dürck, a student of Stieler's. The collection's best-known works are the portraits of the shoemaker's daughter Helene Sedlmayr, the actress Charlotte von Hagn, Marianna Marquesa Florenzi, and Eliza Gilbert (the king's Irish mistresses better known as Lola Montez). They also include a Briton, a Greek, a Scot and an Israelite, along with relations of Ludwig's – the wife and daughter of Ludwig of Oettingen-Wallerstein were both painted, as was Ludwig I's daughter Princess Alexandra of Bavaria. All 38 women pictured were rewarded for modeling by Ludwig I. He took over their dowry, paid them an allowance or found them a job at court. He remained in active correspondence with some of them for years, while others only briefly crossed his life.[2]
^S. K. Ludovic, "A King's Gallery of Beauty" Strand Magazine (January 1902): 16–23.
^Die 37 Schönheiten von Nymphenburg, https://museen-in-bayern.de/schoenheitengalerie-schloss-nymphenburg
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