/internal/media/dispatcher/87055/fullMagdalena Plach1870[Hans Makart]Hans MakartOil on canvasMagdalena Plach, wife of the Viennese art dealer Georg Plach, has been portrayed in profile from quite a low angle. Her face is outlined against the background like a silhouette. The lavish fabric of her white dress adds volume to her figure and emphasizes her presence. Emperor Franz Joseph I had called Makart to Vienna in 1869. And it was this portrait that helped secure the young artist’s breakthrough one year later. Women from the aspirational bourgeoisie were particularly impressed and everyone wanted a portrait by Makart. His patrons were those entrepreneurs, merchants, and bankers who had made their fortunes through industrialization. Their residences are a defining characteristic of Vienna’s grand boulevard, the Ringstrasse. Paintinghttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/objects/264/rdf