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Study portrait

Countess Dénes Széchényi, née Comtesse Émilie de Riquet de Caraman Chimay 1912

Bust-length in profile to the right and looking down, wearing a dark blue off-the-shoulder dress, a white column just indicated behind her

Oil on board, 81.5 x 60.5 cm (32 x 23 ¾ in.)

Inscribed lower left: P.A. László de Lombos / 1912 / London [pencil]

Sitters’ Book I, opp. f. 91: Caraman Chimay Széchényi [below the signature of her husband dated May 1912]

This study portrait is characteristic of the artist’s ability to translate quickly to canvas an impression of a sitter that particular inspired him. It was painted during sittings for the formal portrait of Countess Széchényi [4127] at the artist’s studio in London 1912. The column she leans against is fully developed in the finished picture. De László presented the portrait to the sitter and it hung in the Széchényi castle in Sopronhorpács, Hungary.

For more about this commission and biographical notes on the sitter, see [4127].

PROVENANCE:
By descent in the family

LITERATURE:

•DLA033-0062, letter from Count Dénes Széchenyi to de László, 18 April 1913



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