Portrait of Amalie Auguste of Bavaria

It depicts Princess Amalie Auguste of Bavaria. Stieler was the court painter to her father Maximilian, King of Bavaria, since 1820.^[3] This work was likely commissioned to celebrate the wedding of Amalie Auguste and John of Saxony held on 21 November 1822 in Saxony. The princess is shown wearing a yellow dress in the Empire silhouette style. She is shown standing on a staircase of a veranda with Lake Tegernsee behind her. Since 1817 Tegernsee Castle had been the summer residence of the Bavarian royal family, and Maximilian met Tsar Alexander and Emperor Francis there before the Congress of Verona.^[4]

Amalie Auguste's husband succeeded to the throne as King of Saxony in 1854 and she became queen consort. The portrait is today in the collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, at the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden.^[4]

• Klaus-Diete, Wintermann & John, Uwe. König Johann von Sachsen: zwischen zwei Welten. J. Stekovics, 2001.
• Nöhbauer, Hans F. Munich, City of the Arts. Hirmer, 1994.
• Von Hase-Schmundt, Ulrike. Joseph Stieler, 1781–1858: Sein Leben u. sein Werk. Krit. Verzeichnis d. Werke. Prestel, 1971.

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