François-Joseph KINSON (Bruges, 1770 – 1839)
Presumed portrait of Catherine of Württemberg, Queen of Westphalia (1783–1835), in a red velvet dress and cashmere shawl, leaning on the edge of a balcony, probably in her château of Napoleonshöhe
117 x 90 cm
Oil on its original canvas
Supplier’s mark on the reverse: "Belot, rue de l’Arbre Sec no. 93, Paris"
Provenance:
• France, private collection
Bibliography:
• Denis Coekelberghs and Pierre Loze, 1770–1830 Around Neoclassicism in Belgium, [exh. cat.], Municipal Museum of Fine Arts of Ixelles, Brussels, 14 Nov.–8 Feb. 1986
• Bérénice Vanrenterghem, Kinsoen Kinson (Bruges – 1770 – Bruges 1839), unpublished university thesis, 2007
• Daniel De Clerck, Kinson, Stichting, 2023
• König Lustik!?: Jérôme Bonaparte und der Modellstaat Königreich Westphalen, [exh. cat.], Exhibition, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (2008), Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2008
• Christophe Beyeler and Guillaume Nicoud, Jérôme Napoléon, King of Westphalia, [exh. cat.], Château
