Lot Essay
The subject of this portrait may be a younger version of Franzi whom Defregger painted in 1880 (see pg 298 of the monograph by Hans Peter Defregger - Rosenheimer Verlagshaus). The sitter may also be a version of no.68 Tiroler Knabe in the Defregger monograph by Udolf Rofenburg. (This is also illustrated on pg 321 of the Rosenheimer book.)