A portrait of Christine Auguste Mayer-Leiden

細節

Therése Schwartze (Dutch, 1851-1918)
A portrait of Christine Auguste Mayer-Leiden
signed and dated 'Th.P.Schwartze 93.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
225 x 130 cm.

來源

The sitter, thence by descent to the present owner.

展覽

Bonn, Museum Koënig (on loan 1985-2001).

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拍品專文

The present lot is a typical example of the aristocratic portrait, for which the artist was admired by the Dutch upper class. The sitter is Christine Auguste Mayer-Leiden, who was born on 23 July 1855 in Cologne and died in 1939. She was the daughter of Franz Leiden (1820-1891), a 'Sekt'-merchant and the Dutch consul in Moscow, and a Russian Princess, Wilhelmine de Pr©ene (1837-1873). On 3 September 1879 Christine married Carl Eduard Mayer (1850-1923). They had two children, named Kurt and Martha.

It is a well-known fact within the family that Thérèse was a good friend of Christina and that she had been a frequent guest at the Villa Mayer-Leiden. The family even had a room set aside in the villa as a studio for her. It was in this studio that Thérèse made the present picture during her stay in 1903.