4033

Preparatory work

Amalia Mary Maud Cassel 1900

Seated three-quarter length, reclining to the left, wearing a white dress and a flowered straw hat tied by a blue ribbon under her chin, her right arm draped over the back of a bentwood chair

Oil on board, 55.6 x 43.5 cm (21 ⅞ x 17 ⅛ in.)

Inscribed lower right: László F.E. / 901. Rieder Furka. [in pencil]

Sitters’ Book I, opp. f. 34: Maudi Cassel 2 Mars 1900

Private Collection

This is a preparatory work for the formal portrait of the sitter [4030] which now hangs at Broadlands, Hampshire. It does not appear in the Studio Inventory compiled after de László’s death, as many of these preparatory oils did, indicating that he may have given it to an as yet unidentified previous owner.

It is thought that the artist may have inscribed the picture at a later date and confused the year as the finished picture was painted at the sitter’s home in Switzerland and is clearly dated: László F.E. / 1900 / IX / Rieder Furka V 

For biographical notes on the sitter see [4030].

KF 2012