Louise Seidler is one of the best-known women painters of German Romanticism. Goethe knew her already as a child and sponsored her. When she went to Dresden and later to Rome, he consistently warned her against the artistic influence of the Romantics. She nonetheless became friends with Friedrich and other artists of Dresden Romanticism. She spent some years in Rome in contact with the Nazarenes, whose fine, clear style also resonates in this portrait. The portrait of Julie Zschaler as a bride with cornflowers in her hair was produced in Weimar, where Seidler had been a drawing teacher and custodian of the painting gallery since 1824.