Barbara Gärtner, Wife of the Court Architect Andreas Gärtner (Gemahlin des Hofbauintendanten Andreas Gärtner)
Konrad Eberhard
Munich, 1806
Alabaster
12,4 x 10,3 cm
Inv.-Nr. 81/16.1-2
Bequest of Dr. Peter von Bomhard (1916–1979), taken over in 1981
Gallery 51
Not only were painted portrait miniatures popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, this was also the age of miniature portraits in relief. In 1805-1806 Konrad Eberhard executed a sequence of exquisitely carved medallion portraits in white alabaster set atop a background of pink-veined alabaster in Munich. Among them were portraits of members of the family of his teacher, Roman Anton Boos, and of the Court Architect, Andreas Gärtner, who had been summoned to Munich from Würzburg in 1804. Eberhard also carved portraits of Gärtner's three children. One of them would become the celebrated Munich architect Friedrich von Gärtner.
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