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Lot 361
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Caroline Maschek

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • Caroline Maschek
  • Twenty-one studies of orchids
  • gouache on paper. 21 works in 8 frames.
  • each 12 by 9 in.
  • 30.5 by 23 cm
each inscribed with the Latin name, some dated 885 and 889

Provenance

Countess Maria von Thurn-Valassina, the artist's grand-daughter
Sold, Sotheby's, London, June 20, 1985

Catalogue Note

The present works are part of the many illustrations commissioned by Baron Hruby, who formed the largest and most important collection of orchids in Austria at the end of the 19th century.