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Mademoiselle Sontag, after Winterhalter
  • Alexandre Fiocchi (1803 - 1896)
  • After Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805 - 1875)
  • Mademoiselle Sontag, after Winterhalter
  • France
  • Date: 1852
  • Object Type: Miniature
  • Medium: Watercolour on ivory
  • Image size: 16.5 x 13.4 cm
  • Inv: M105
  • Location: West Gallery II
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  • Henriette Sontag was one of the leading operatic and concert sopranos of her time. Fiocchi was a pupil of Ingres and 'Isabey' (presumably Jean-Baptiste). He never exhibited at the Paris Salon, but achieved sufficient renown to be commissioned by the state in 1855 to paint a copy in miniature of Winterhalter's full-length portrait of the Empress Eugénie. His miniatures are rare, and it is perhaps surprising that there are as many as four in the Wallace Collection - suggesting that he may have been known personally to Lord Hertford or Richard Wallace. A label on the back of the Wallace Collection's miniature, 'Winterhalter 8br. 1842', suggests that the miniature is after Franx Xavier Winterhalter, which may well be partially correct - the style and composition recall Winterhalter's works, but of the late 1840s and early 1850s, rather than 1842.