5933

Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, née Princess Elenore zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich 1907 

Half-length in profile to the right, head turned three-quarter face to the viewer, wearing full court dress and a tiara with a veil flowing down her back

Oil on board, 99.8 x 75.2 cm (32 ¼ x 26 ⅝ in.)

Inscribed lower right:  P. A. László / Darmstadt / 1907 IV [?]  

Sitters’ Book I, opp. f. 75: Eleonore Grossherzogin von Hessen / und bei Rhein / Darmstadt April 1907.

Stiftung Hessischer Jägerhof, Museum Jagdschloss Kranichstein, Germany

In 1907 the artist also painted three portraits of the sitter’s husband, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine [5941], [9783], and [5937] as a pendant to the present portrait. Another portrait of the sitter remained unfinished and unsigned and was most probably rejected [10442].

PROVENANCE:

Ernest Louis Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine

EXHIBITED:    

•Nemzeti Szalon, Budapest, László Fülöp műveinek gyűjteményes kiállítása [Exhibition of Works by László Fülöp], April 1907

•The Fine Art Society, London, Portrait Paintings and Drawings by Philip A. László, May and June 1907, no. 26

•Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Künstlerhaus Annual Exhibition, May-June 1911, no. 87

LITERATURE:

•Schleinitz, Otto von, Künstler Monographien, n° 106, Ph. A. V. László, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1913, p. 76, ill. pl. 91

•Williams, Oakley, ed., Selections from the Work of P.A. de László, Hutchinson, London 1921, p. 73

•Rutter, Owen, Portrait of a Painter, London, 1939, pp. 227-30, 233, 236, 238, 245, 248, 270

•Duff, David, Hessian Tapestry, Ed. Frederick Muller, London, 1967, pp. 256-257, ill. opp. p. 257

•Hart-Davis, Duff, in collaboration with Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, Philip de László. His Life and Art, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 94, 95, 97

•Field, Katherine ed., Transcribed by Susan de Laszlo, The Diaries of Lucy de László Volume I: (1890-1913), de Laszlo Archive Trust, 2019, p. 98

•Field, Katherine ed., Gábor Bellák and Beáta Somfalvi, Philip de László (1869-1937); "I am an Artist of the World", Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, 2019, p. 39

•DLA162-0509, Pesti Hírlap, 31 March 1907, p. 12

•DLA162-0167, Pesti Hírlap, 11 April 1907, p. 12

•László, Lucy de, 1902-1911 diary, private collection, 12 April 1907 entry, p. 110

•DLA090-0288, German press cutting, Exhibition Künstlerhaus Wien, [undated, presumably 1911]

•László, Philip de, 1931 diary, private collection, 15 September entry, p. 262

•DLA091-0084, German press cutting, [undated, page unknown]

•DLA091-0150, German press cutting, “Die Jubiläumsausstellung im Künstlerhaus”, Die Freistatt, No. 13, [1911], S. 198

•NSzL149-0010, letter from de László to Lajos Ernst, 21 March 1907

•NSzL149-0011, letter from de László to Lajos Ernst, 29 March 1907

•DLA140-0212, Térey, Dr. Gabriel von, “A Hungarian Portrait Painter: Philip de László,” The Studio, vol. 40, no. 170, May 1907, pp. 254-67

•DLA140-0202, The American Review of Reviews, May 1908, p. 550

ATG 2012

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