Empress Elisabeth, Part IV

The Empress (sometimes I think that it was based on her famous photo session of her standing near to a table and with a wonderful dress with train, well, the hairdo is similar)

A lot of paintings are based on earlier photographic portraits of the Empress. That's simply due to the fact that Elisabeth didn't pose for paintings or photographs in her later days. So the artists had be creative.

Oo, that's nice!  What photoshoot do you mean? I recognize the hairdo, but there are so many pictures of her in a long train! 
I have a question, is this Sissi, and if it is, does anyone have it bigger?

Oh Yes She is !!!

Lovely, thank you!  Do you know who drew it, and when? Seems like 1860s to me..

Oo, that's nice!  What photoshoot do you mean? I recognize the hairdo, but there are so many pictures of her in a long train! 

I'm talking about this, it reminded me that painting!! What do you think? 
About the beautiful drawing I don't know wno made it (like many of her portraits) but agree that it must be of her early years of marriage, she looks sooo young 

Yes, I think that the hairstyles are very similar! 
The dress reminds me awfully of this one:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Amanda_Bergstedt_001.jpg

Yes, that's it. The dress is of the younger Elisabeth, the head of an elder one. lol

Love those composited portraits! You're right the dress of a younger Sissi with the head of an older one. The posthumus portrait of her by Lazslo (1899) is the opposite, her face looks of much younger and the dress is of late 1890's!! 
Found it as the Empress

Found the next recently online, another verssion of the Empress' death.

Posted on the first parts of the thread but now in color...
The austrian Imperial family

That is really lovely though the children look a bit strange in their skimpy clothes...are they supposed to be Gisela's children? No wait--one of them must be little Erzi. Yet Stephanie is not there... What page was the black and white version on, and was it bigger?  I love Elisabeth's dress! 

From left to right: Sissi, Marie Valerie, Franz Joseph, Rudolph (with a book), the two daughters of Gisela (one of them Elisabeth, the other perhaps Augusta), Luitpold of Bavaria (Gisela's husband) and Gisela. Not Stephanie or Erszi, Rudolph was still single!
The B&W had a similar size, but  I found this recently online (the full portrait is in two parts), because would take you centuries to search on the previous parts for the first one  
Part one
Part two

Very nice, thank you!  Do you know what year it was done? Seems to be around the 1870s, perhaps for Sissi and Franz's anniversary? Or was Rudolph married yet then?

The kids are Gisela's first two daughters, Elisabeth Marie and Auguste. I think this was probably created to the anniversary of the Empress and the Emperor in 1879 which would also explain why Stephanie is not on the photo. Rudolf got married 1881. Also, Elisabeth is wearing her famous ruby jewellery and that portrait was often used in connection with the anniversary and created by Georg Raab in 1878. So 1879 would make perfect sense.