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Nicola Marschall
American, born Prussia, 1829–1917
Nicola Marschall was a native of Prussia who arrived in the Port of New Orleans in 1849. He travelled to the Alabama Black Belt, where he set up as a portraitist depicting members of the planter families who lived in central Alabama.
Between 1857 and 1859, Marschall returned to Europe to continue his art studies in Munich. This highly polished figure group of women in a forest setting dates prior to that time, but exhibits the artist's interest in following the academic style of painting which was much in vogue in the European art academies of the nineteenth century. This painting, while it may have been painted as a decorative object, may also have served as an advertisment for the artist's skills as he sought portrait commissions from the local gentry in central Alabama.
American, born Prussia, 1829–1917
Odalisque
1852
Object Type:
Painting
Creation Place:
North America, Austrian
Dimensions:
22 3/4 in. x 18 5/8 in. (57.79 cm x 47.31 cm)
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Accession Number:
1969.0077
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. George Tannenbaum
Nicola Marschall was a native of Prussia who arrived in the Port of New Orleans in 1849. He travelled to the Alabama Black Belt, where he set up as a portraitist depicting members of the planter families who lived in central Alabama.
Between 1857 and 1859, Marschall returned to Europe to continue his art studies in Munich. This highly polished figure group of women in a forest setting dates prior to that time, but exhibits the artist's interest in following the academic style of painting which was much in vogue in the European art academies of the nineteenth century. This painting, while it may have been painted as a decorative object, may also have served as an advertisment for the artist's skills as he sought portrait commissions from the local gentry in central Alabama.
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