10524

Portrait drawing

Princess Maria Teresa von Hohenzollern, née Princess Bourbon-Two Sicilies 1900

Head and shoulders in profile to the left, head turned slightly in three-quarter profile, wearing a double strand pearl necklace, her hair pinned up

Charcoal heightened with brown chalk and white on buff paper, 71 x 54.5 cm (28 x 21 ½ in.)                        Inscribed lower left: In freundlicher Erinnerung [in friendly memory]

Inscribed lower right: Laszlo / Potsdam / 1900 I 23

Sitters’ Book I, f. 24: Marie Theresie Erbprinzessin / von Hohenzollern Pr von / Bourbon 1900

Fürstlich Hohernzollernsche Sammlungen und Hofbibliothek, Sigmaringen, Germany

In 1900, de László also painted a formal half-length portrait [4448] and another portrait drawing of the sitter [4457], very similar to the present one, which he kept as a memento.

He gave Maria Teresa von Hohenzollern this second drawing, slightly more worked up, as a souvenir. Another bust length in charcoal has descended in her family [114327].  

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [4448].

EXHIBITED:

•Fine Art Society, London, An Exhibition of Portrait Paintings and Drawings by Philip A. László, May and June 1907, no. 50 (could also refer to [4457])

LITERATURE:

•Schleinitz, Otto (von), Künstler Monographien, n° 106, Ph A. von László, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1913, p. 58

•Rutter, Owen, Portrait of a Painter, London, 1939, pp. 181-2, 201        

•Hart-Davis, Duff, in collaboration with Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, Philip de László. His Life and Art, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2010, pp. 62-3

•DLA042-0061, letter from Maria Christina Salm-Salm to de László, 21 January 1903

AG 2011