Gallery of Beauties

The collection's best-known works are the portraits of the shoemaker's daughter Helene Sedlmayr, actress Charlotte von Hagn, Italian nobelwoman Marianna Florenzi, and the King's Irish mistress Eliza Gilbert (better known as Lola Montez).

The gallery of originally 40 works that was created between 1650 and 1675 for Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, Electress of Bavaria had a much greater influence on Ludwig I.

William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel had Johann Heinrich Tischbein paint 28 beauties: 14 bourgeois ones for the first anteroom of Wilhelmsthal Palace, 14 noble ones for the second.

The models were known to William VIII; they were not portraits (or even copies of existing works) of ladies from other courts unknown to him, as had been common in previous galleries.

Empress Elizabeth of Russia commissioned the artist from Verona, who had been her court painter since 1756, to create a cabinet of fashions and graces.

At this point, Stieler, still a court painter without a fixed salary, offered portraits of Madame Lang and an Italian opera singer, Adelaide Schiasetti.

The plan for the rooms called for red and green stucco marble in wide, horizontal layering for the walls, which were to be finished with a base zone of around 80 cm.

This is how the only two paintings in the collection that did not come directly from Stieler were created: Anna von Greiner and Carlotta Boos zu Waldeck.

Since the ballroom building was destroyed during World War II, the collection moved to the small dining room at Nymphenburg Palace.

[12]Moritz Gottlieb Saphir published the poem "The Two Roses" in February 1828, which deals with the portrait of Amalie von Krüdener.