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Baroness Hugo von Reischach, née Princess Margarethe von Ratibor 1898

Head and shoulders in profile to the left, her head turned almost full face and looking to the viewer, wearing a large dark hat and a full dark evening gown with a fur wrap about her shoulders

Oil on canvas, 80.5 x 60.5 cm (31 ¾ x 23 ⅘ in.)

Inscribed lower right: László F. E. / 1898 x Raüden   

Sitters’ Book I, f. 28: Margarethe Freifrau von Reischach 3/8 1899

Private Collection

De László also painted a study portrait of the sitter in 1898 [2988] and a portrait sketch of her in 1899 [13528].

EXHIBITED:

•Galerie Schulte 1899 [to be verified]        

•Hungarian Fine Art Society, Budapest, Tavaszi Nemzetközi Kiállítás [Spring International Exhibition], 1899, no. 158

•Conversationshaus, Baden Baden, Kunstausstellung, August 1899 [to be verified]

•Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 1899

LITERATURE:

•Schleinitz, Otto (von), Künstler Monographien, n° 106, Ph A. von László, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Velhagen & Klasing), 1913, p. 26, ill. pl. 29

•Rutter, Owen, Portrait of a Painter, London, 1939, p. 159

•NSzL150-0064, letter from de László to Lippich, 12 October 1898, Schloß Rauden

•DLA140-0072, Die Woche, volume I, Berlin, 18 March 1899, p. 5, ill.

•DLA090-0050, Dr Gabriel von Térey, “Brief aus Baden-Baden" [Letter from Baden-Baden], Pester Lloyd, 20 August 1899, p. 5

•DLA090-0193, “Kunstausstellung im Conversationshaus”, German press cutting, [undated, presumably 1899]  

•DLA151-0008, “Art and Science”, Berliner Börsen-Zeitung, 18 February 1899

•DLA090-0289, German press cutting, 23 October 1899

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