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The Habsburgs / Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part V.
« on: September 03, 2012, 06:26:47 PM »
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Really? I thought it was one of the best books on Elisabeth alongside Elisabeth. Bilder Ihres Lebens by Johannes Thiele, Elisabeth - Bilder einer Kaiserin. Portraits of an Empress by Brigitte Hamann, and Elisabeth: Prinzessin in Bayern, Kaiserin von Österreich, Königin von Ungarn by Gerda Mraz & Ulla Fischer-Westhauser ...
What nice, I didn't know that this wonderful portrait was made by Arpad Koppay!! Here in color and bigger:
http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/vv226/KaiserinAlzbeta/Palace/BlackLady.jpg
Count and Countess Lonyay![]()
Empress Sissi with Ferenc Deak, it is located at Gödöllo Palace. Is a really nice surprise to see that it is really a painting, the verssions that I saw of it before suggested that it was just a print!! If I'm not wrong it has been recently in restoration.
Click here for bigger!!
Source: lenolaj.hu
Better verssion of this?
I think in the end only the black dresses survived in her closet at the time of her death. The gray dress she wore for Valarie's wedding was an exception...
Yes, many of the real dresses -not replicas- that still exist are mainly of the mourning years -here I've seen 4 or 5, and also her very well known last dress-. Is a pity that the black dress that she wore at the Hungarian Millenium celebration (1896) isn't available today, not minding that is one of the last dresses that she wore, and also considering that she wore it for a very important event. I wonder if the famous light gray dress still exist? Here only was posted a pinkish dress that Sissi wore for MV's engagement but not for the wedding. Here, was posted time ago a photo of one grayish dress but I can't assure when she really wore it.
The TuT famliy is addicted to photos and to their familyI've just discovered an other statue of Elisabeth in the Th&T Collections: on the right you can see a small version of the Gödöllő monument by József Róna!
It’s a really big surprise to see the Rengensburg portrait by Benczúr here.
** - i apologize for the angle & quality of a couple of these, but they're the best i could do![]()
notice she's wearing the tiara she wore for the coronation in hungary.
i don't know what the occasion this portrait may have been documenting, but it was definately not her wedding!!
(**as far as i know, this painting has never been published (or exhibited), so unfortunately i don't know the artist)
Last week in the Sisi portraits topic (Empress Sissi & Family More Pics) somebody had sent two small details of the Regensburg Benczúr portrait, and she was looking for a reproduction of the whole painting. Here’s my answer:
"In 1898 Emperor Franz Joseph commissioned five portraits of Elisabeth for the former Empress' ladies in waiting. Two of them were painted by Gyula Benczúr. The one painted for Ida Ferenczy is to be found today in the Hungarian National Museum (Oil, canvas, 142 x 92,5 cm, inv. no. 1861), this is the FAMOUS ONE, which can be seen on the cover of Hamann's album, and on the cover of the Hungarian album mentioned above, too (now there are plans of a second edition).
Now it's not on display, but it will be one of the highlights of a new temporary exhibition "The Cult of Elisabeth" in Gödöllő. (Opening: 7th June). (…)
So, the second portrait by Benczúr was painted for Irma Sztáray (also in 1899). Now it's lost, but there are some historical photos of it, and there's a replica (presumably also by Benczúr himself) in the Thurn und Taxis Kunstsammlungen in Regensburg, Germany. (oil, canvas, 138 x 94 cm, inv. no.: St.E. 492.) It was on display in the exhibition "Bavaria - Germania - Europa, Geschichte auf Bayerisch" in the Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte in Augsburg in 2000 (cat. no. 6.48.). The small colour detail posted before is from the official website of this exhibition. There's a photo showing the complete painting is colour on the website as well, but I was unable to download it. The BW detail posted before seems to be detail of the original painting.
(And there's a third portrait of Benczúr: a full length one showing E in the same dress with a dog - it was burnt during the WW II)."
The portrait painted for Countess Sztáray
The first portrait is something I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE
It's a really strange one, the hair and the dress (and also the painting itself) suggests that it was made (or it shows Elisabeth) in the 1890s, but the dress is WHITE. I think this is one of the strange 1890s/posthumous "compilations"