Empress Elisabeth, Part V.

[cebi26]

How wealthy was the Empress family in Bavaria? Also, did her "pedigree" seemed enough for the Austrian Court?

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

Two new images of Sissi and Franz:
Time ago I posted a close up of this but is really nice to find the full one... Visiting Venice (from the French blog elisabethdautriche.fr, enlarged and edited by me)

Bigger here!

Another:

[Jen_94]

Lovely finds. Really like the Venice one in particular!

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

Glad you like them Jen!!!   A pair new, well these are close ups from old photos of the Habsburg family -with very interesting portraits on the background I must say!-, I expect to see them in color and better quality one day. I expect they still exist -I know many stuff was destroyed during the World Wars-... possibly the Habsburg family still owns them.

 

[Jen_94]

What a find!! I really hope those turn up in better quality. There could be a chance that the Habsburg family own them.

[Carolath Habsburg]

Hi folks!

I d like to know which book of Robert Massie has this image mislabeled as "Empress Elisabeth in her deathbed". We all know its an scene from Elisabeth´s first film (1921)

Here s the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbRg7ZzBWvQ&playnext=1&list=PL2D6EE728D323C952&feature=results_video

The image




The questions is because a girl on D.A has this image as stock image on her page. I kindly corrected her saying it wasnt Sissi, but an scene of a movie. She had a trainwreck and send me to confront Robert Massie because in HIS book this image appeared as the real empress in her deathbed (even tho i sent her a link of the video).

Here the lil argument (from her side cause i never wanted to start it)

http://imageshack.us/a/img820/6144/ljgou.jpg

So , now im curious to know which book of Massie has such a mistake (and if that mostake, nowadays, have an erratum). Thanks in advanced!

[aor]

I would suggest to this girl, that women in 1898 did NOT wear dark eye shadow....... I would not waste time convincing her to the authenticity of this well known 'image'.

[Carolath Habsburg]

i wont do it anymore since she s so stubborn and rude , but im curious about what she said about Robert Massie. I cant believe he made such a mistake labeling that image as the real Kaiserin Elisabeth in her deathbed 0_o

[Clelia]

Hola!

The book is "The last Courts of Europe. A Royal Family Album 1860-1914". But Robert Massie only wrote the introduction. The picture research and descriptions are by Jeffrey Finestone.

THe photo is spread in pages 88-89, and the description says "Empress Elisabeth on her deathbed, 10 September 1898. She was assassinated at Geneva while boarding a boat - stabbed in the chest, she nevertheless continued walking but collapsed some moments later".

The photo was reproduced by permission of Roger Violet, Paris.

I hope this helps ;-)

[Carolath Habsburg]

Thanks, Vero! i knew Robert Massie wouldnt commit such a big mistake!.

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

If this mistake is in a book I now can understand why it frequently appears in some sites where people firmly believe that the woman is actually the Empress in her deathbed :-/

Happy 175th Birthday for the Empress Sissi!!

[GrandDuchessAndrea]

Very, very pretty collage! A tremendously interesting and beautiful woman was born 175 years ago today, and may she rest in peace!

[Jen_94]

How beautiful!

Happy 175th birthday to the beautiful Empress Sissi!

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

Thank you ladies!!  
From the hungarian site index.hu, modern portrait of the Empress

[Maria_Pavlovna]

Funny how she was indeed very slim however her dresses during the 1850s to early 1870 made her look curvy! lol