What is the name of this painting, what does it mean, and what does the girl who put this as a WeChat avatar look like.
The work is A?Young?Girl?called?Princess?Charlotte/ "Princess Charlotte in Youth", written by Franz Xaver, a representative of the German Academy and a European court painter. Works by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873).
Introduction to Princess Charlotte: Princess Charlotte of Belgium 1840-1927, her father is Leo Peter I of Belgium, and her mother is French Princess Louise-Maria (second wife). Later, she married Austrian Prince Maximilian (later Archduke Karl, brother-in-law of Princess Sissi). After their marriage, the couple lived in Italy as representatives of the Austrian royal family. In 1863, with the support of French King Napoleon III, Archduke Carl accepted the throne of Mexico and lost his noble rights in Austria; in 1864, the couple arrived in Mexico and officially became Emperor and Queen of Mexico; in 1866, the treacherous Napoleon III withdrew In the same year, Queen Charlotte returned to Europe to seek support, but failed. She suffered from mental illness and never returned to Mexico. On June 19, 1867, Archduke Carl was shot to death on the order of former Mexican President Juárez. , the body was preserved and exhibited in Mexico before being returned to Austria several months later. After Princess Charlotte went mad, she returned to Belgium and died in Meise, Belgium on January 19, 1927 at the age of 86.
Girls use this as their WeChat avatar. Personally, I don’t think it has any particularly profound meaning. It’s just that the figures in the oil paintings are beautiful, because the author Winterhalter was a portrait painter popular with the courts of various countries during his lifetime. The middle-class nobles generally have elegant postures and are outstanding in portraits. His painting techniques are also close to modern people's aesthetic standards.