Josepha Conti

Josepha Conti (born 1825) was a Bavarian servant and beauty of the 19th century.

Born as a household servant's eldest daughter, she was married aged 15 to a 45-year-old painter Anton Conti in 1840. They lived on Briennerstrasse in Munich, near the Royal Residenz, thus becoming known to Ludwig I of Bavaria, who included her in his Gallery of Beauties. Her husband had left her by 1845, but she then worked (from 1850 to 1852) as a maker of canvases for the royal court, later marrying a Court Councillor.