Portrait of Miss Ada Calhoun

Portrait of Miss Ada Calhoun
Artist	Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Year	1867
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	116 cm × 90 cm (46 in × 35 in)
Location	Private collection

Portrait of Miss Ada Calhoun is an oil painting made in January 1867 by European court painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter depicting American plantation heiress Marie Margaret Ada Calhoun, later Ada Calhoun Lane.^[1] Calhoun was the daughter of Meredith Calhoun, who owned vast plantations and well over 1,000 slaves in Louisiana and Alabama, but had lived in France almost full-time beginning in 1842.^[2] In 2016, the portrait of Ada Calhoun was the only image of an American included in the traveling exhibit High Society: The Portraits of Franz X. Winterhalter.^[3] The painting apparently hung at Abingdon Place in Huntsville, Alabama in 1895, at which time it was witness to a dinner honoring suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt, who had been invited to town to speak on the topic of votes for women.^[4]

• Wild, Franz (1894). Nekrologe und Verzeichnisse der Gemälde von Franz & Hermann Winterhalter (in German). Zurich: Hofer & Burger.
• Winterhalter, Franz Xaver; Barilo von Reisberg, Eugene; Coleman, Elizabeth A.; Ormond, Richard (2015). Kessler-Aurisch, Helga; Chabanne, Laure; Stockhausen, Tilmann von; Straub, Mirja (eds.). High Society: the portraits of Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Augustinermuseum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Musée National du Château de Compiègne. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers. ISBN 978-3-89790-448-4.

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