Polish school; c. 1829.

Polish school; c. 1829.
"Portrait of a lady".
Oil on canvas. Relined.
Signed and dated in the lower left area,
Measurements: 41 x 34 cm; 49 x 41 cm (frame).
During this period the panorama of the European portrait is varied and wide, with numerous influences and determined in great part by the taste of both the clientele and the painter himself. However, this century saw the birth of a new concept of portraiture, which would evolve throughout the century and unify all the national schools: the desire to capture the personality of the human being and his character, beyond his external reality and his social rank, in his effigy. During the previous century, portraiture had become consolidated among the upper classes, and was no longer reserved only for the court. For this reason, the formulas of the genre would become more relaxed and move away from the ostentatious and symbolic