page_title: Constantin Daniel Rosenthal
section_title: Wallachian revolution
hierarchical_section_title: Constantin Daniel Rosenthal / Biography / Wallachian revolution
caption_attribution_description: Română: Portret de grup - litografie, de la stânga la dreapta: Constantin Daniel Rosenthal, C. A. Rosetti, Vasile Mălinescu (indicația persoanelor după Dan Grigorescu: trei pictori de la 1848, Editura Meridiane, București, 1973, galeria de la pag. 169).English: Group portrait of (from left to right) Constantin Daniel Rosenthal, C. A. Rosetti and an unknown Wallachian revolutionary; lithograph copy of a work by Rosenthal
context_page_description: Constantin Daniel Rosenthal was a Romanian painter and sculptor of Austrian-Jewish birth and a 1848 revolutionary, best known for his portraits and his choice of Romanian Romantic nationalist subjects.
context_section_description: In 1846, the profit from his works afforded him a trip to England; upon his return to Paris, he was informed of his family's financial destitution, and left for Budapest in early 1847, only to leave in summer for Mehadia, and then, in August, for Bucharest. Rosenthal again joined the radical circles, this time as a member of the secret society  Frăţia, which was by then masking itself as a literary society presided by Iancu Văcărescu, and was commissioned by Vasile Alecsandri to paint a portrait of the deceased Elena Negri after a daguerrotype. He also painted the portrait of Anica Manu, the wife of Aga Iancu Manu.
  Upon the outbreak of the revolution, Rosenthal was spared the first wave of repression ordered by Prince Gheorghe Bibescu - given the fact that he carried an Austrian passport. On June 18, 1848, soon after the Provisional Government took hold, Rosenthal applied for Wallachian  citizenship (in theory, Romanian - as the new administrative body indicated its goal in the union of the two Danubian Principalities); the document giving him the right of naturalization justified it as "taking in view his talent and the active part he played in the revolution". In his correspondence with Rosetti, he later testified: "I never would have thought that I could be as Wallachian as I am now".
  The Government assigned him the designing of a triumphal arch in Bucharest, one meant to mark the success of the revolution, and, probably, of a Statue of Liberty (the latter project only survives in a watercolour by Theodor Aman, Dezrobirea Ţiganilor - "The Freeing of the Gypsies").
caption: Lithograph of a group portrait by Rosenthal. From left: Rosenthal (wearing a phrygian cap), C. A. Rosetti, and an unknown revolutionary
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