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Oil on canvas
possibly by Fortunat Bergant
1748 - 1750
92 x 75 cm
An oval showing a young woman to below the waist turned a quarter to the right. Her face is reddish, her wig white, and she wears a green dress with a very low cut neck, narrow at the waist. A pale pink cloak is wrapped around her shoulders. The background is brown. On the left side above her shoulder are the joined family crests of the Orsic and Zichy families. There is no signature.
Josipa Orsic was the wife of Count Krsto Orsic.
The Slovene painter Fortunat Bergant (Mekinje/Slovenija, 1721 - Ljubljana, 1769), was in the second half of the 18th century also active in Croatia. Two other portraits in the Paintings Collection of the HPM, those of Josipa and Krsto Orsic can be attributed to his hand.
The painting was donated to the national Museum in 1854 by Countess Josipa Kulmer nee Orsic from Sestine.
M. Schneider, Portreti 16-18. stoljeca, Zagreb, 1982, page 145, catalogue number 202;
M. Bregovac Pisk, Plemstvo u Hrvatskoj, (exhibition catalogue), Zeljezno/Eisenstadt, 1990, catalogue number 25;
Od svagdana do blagdana - Barok u Hrvatskoj, (exhibition catalogue), Muzej za umjetnost i obrt, Zagreb, 1993, page 287, catalogue number 152.
In the first years after the founding of the National Museum, Countess Kulmer had donated to it some twenty portraits of her ancestors from the Orsic, Kulmer, Sermage, Keglevic, Draskovic, and Zichy families, as well as the Gallery of Croatian and Hungarian rulers (46 portraits). By 1858 the National Museum held over a hundred portraits, most of them donated by Countess Kulmer.
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