Question about and/or Help with Picture(s)

[Eric_Lowe]

If that was Carola, it must be a very early photograph.

[Rani]

This is a Winterhalter portrait. But who is the lady? Maybe it´s a famous portrait, but I don´t know it.

Thanks

[Grandduchess Valeria]

This is Mathilde Letizia Wilhelmine Bonaparte, daughter of Jerome Bonaparte (youngest brother of Napoleon) and Katharina of Wurttemberg

[Grandduchess Valeria]

This is another pic of her

[Carolath Habsburg]

i was going to say the same thing. Here s a close up of her face

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WINTERHALTER.jpg

[Grandduchess Valeria]

Katenka, guess that was a battle of seconds

The tiara is remarably beautiful. Does anybody know which one it is?

[Carolath Habsburg]

Yes, we re quick!! xDDD

I dont know but it looks pretty much of this one of Sophie of Netherland

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Sophia_Fredeika,_Princess_of_Wurtemberg.jpg

[Rani]

Thank you very much! (Both of you!)

[Grandduchess Valeria]

That really does, Katenka, thank you. It's maybe a heirloom from the Wurtemberg family. Problem is, that Sophie died at 1877 and Mathilde wore this tiara 1860...It seems to me that there was a duplicate for both of them or that the tiara was just in possesion of the Wurtemberg house and both ladies "borrowed" it for their paintings.

[Carolath Habsburg]

i dont know if it was an exactly duplicated but that kind of tiaras with stars were pretty popular  in that period.

Here another example with Queen Isabel II of spain

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5074/001009ep0.jpg

[Grandduchess Valeria]

huh, "beautiful" lady thanks Katenka, then it might have been a modern "must have" in that time.

[Rani]

Prinzessin of Baden, but which?

[synnadene]

I beleive she is the Princess Maria Maximiliane of Leuchtenberg (1841-1914), the Duchess Wilhelm of Baden

[Clelia]

I agree with synadenne, for me it's Marie of Leuchtenberg

[Rani]

Thanks!!