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Viktor II, Duke of Ratibor, Fürst von Corvey, Prince von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst 1899

Half-length, head in three-quarter profile to the right, wearing a dark waistcoat, white short and a black tie

Oil on canvas [presumed], [dimensions unknown]

Indistinctly inscribed lower left: László F.E. / 899

Sitters’ Book I, opp. f. 18: Victor Herzog Ratibor

Sitters’ Book I, f. 55: V H Ratibor / 11/4 02

De László also painted a portrait of the sitter in uniform in 1898 [7478].

The full entry for this portrait is in preparation.

EXHIBITED:

•Galerie Schulte, Berlin, 1899

LITERATURE:          

•Schleinitz, Otto von, Künstler Monographien, n° 106. Ph. A. von László, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1913, p. 45, ill. pl. 33

•Hart-Davis, Duff, in collaboration with Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, De László: His Life and Art, Yale University Press, 2010, p. 48

•NSzL150-0067, letter from de László to Elek Lippich, 24 January 1899

•NSzL150-0072, letter from de László to Elek Lippich, 12 April 1899

AG 2011