$7,500
ATTRIB. FRIEDRICH VON AMERLING, AUSTRIAN OIL ON CANVAS, MID 19TH C., 24" X 20", COUNTESS JULIA HUNYADY DE KETHELY:Attributed to Friedrich von Amerling (Austrian, 1803-1887), a bust-length portrait of a young woman in a diaphanous dress with a daisy at the center. No apparent signature, in a gilt wood and gesso frame of the period with hand-written note in German, dated December 1929, on the reverse (see additional photo), identifying the sitter as Countess Julia Hunyady de Kethely (1831-1919), a Hungarian noblewoman and the Princess consort of Serbia as the wife of Mihailo Obrenovic III; she later married Duke Karl von Arenberg, Prince von Recklinghausen, after Obrenovic's assassination in 1868.
Auctioneer:
Dumouchelle Art Galleries
Date:
2015-03-15
