![Otto Franz Scholderer - Portrait of the Artist's Wife [c.1872-73] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_thmjk4U0cYKM9UpKQ82dMwsRi3TfCy3BgMv4lnlIfmQKRZk90h_n2O7gZcxhk3LUBoiGE1o-eSkje3bdYseKb6oheWqQ67Uvo2k6N31nmxiIHL_QJgvo-ZXzqVB417Eg=s0-d)
Otto Franz Scholderer - Portrait of the Artist's Wife [c.1872-73], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.
The artist made several portraits of Luise Steurwaldt, whom he married at Roehampton on February 11, 1872. This work is closely related to a larger painting (Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut) where the sitter wears the same costume but holds a European fan, rather than the Japanese one shown here. The Frankfurt painting, for which this may be a study, is dated 1873 and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1875.
Scholderer (1834-1902) was born in Frankfurt where he studied at the Städelsches Kunstinstitut with J. D. Passavant and Jacob Becker. He made frequent trips to Paris and became acquainted with Fantin-Latour and Manet. From 1871 to 1899 he lived in London; he died in Frankfurt. Scholderer was a still-life and portrait painter.
[Oil on canvas, 31.6 x 40 cm]
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