Philip Alexius de László 1869-1937

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Description

Philip Alexius de László
PORTRAIT OF EMELIE LASCH-KERN
inscribed, signed and dated l.l.: In Verehrung/ László Fulop/ Drehna/ 1898 VII; inscribed on the reverse; Emilie Lasch-Kern/ VII, Lindengasse 4
oil on panel
40 by 30 1/2 cm. ; 16 by 12 in.

Catalogue Note

This portrait bears the same date and inscription as that of Baronin Margarethe von Reischach, née Princess von Ratibor. Drehna is south of Berlin, half way to Dresden. Early in 1897 de László became acquainted with Prince Max Ratibor, the German Consul-General in Budapest, and this led to a long and happy friendship with the various members of this family. The Ratibors are large landowners in Germany and are related or connected by marriage with most of the German nobility. The family were united for at least a part of each year at the castle of Rauden in Upper Silesia. De László was made welcome at Rauden and it was at this seventeenth-century castle, near what was then the Russian frontier, that he first came into contact with the great families of Germany.

With thanks to The Hon. Mrs. de Laszlo and Christopher Wentworth-Stanley who are compiling the Catalogue Raisonné of works by Philip de László.