Portrait of Emilie Bubeníčková [von Schramek]

Purkyně, Karel (1834-1868)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1865

Height:

76.5 cm  (30 1/8 in.)

Width:

61.5 cm  (24 3/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

From the Národní galerie Praha website: Emilie Bubeníčková was a Prague singer, pupil of Pivoda’s School of singing. In the 1860s she used to sing at musical evenings of Umělecká beseda (association of artists, writers, musicians etc.); in 1869 she sang Mařenka in Smetana’s Bartered Bride. In his work on this portrait Purkyně probably used a photograph, now at the Smetana Museum in Prague. Purkyně’s only resources in this portrait were monumental form, plasticity of volume and limited colour range.

People as subjects

Schramek, Emilie von (1844-1920) (Musician portrait)

Iconclass

48C8313
portrait of opera-singer

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5681