Lot 102: August César (Austrian, 1837-1907)

Portrait of Countesse Stollberg zu Stollberg (1827-1904)
signed and dated 'ACésar. 1878.' (centre right); and inscribed with an excerpt from a poem on the reverse
oil on canvas
216 x 137 cm.

The sitter was born on the 6th August 1827 and died on the 17th August 1904. On the 14th April 1846 she married Moritz Count Saint Genuis (1816-1886).
The sentence on the reverse of the present lot is an excerpt from a poem by Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg (1750-1819) and reads "Der Geist lechzet nach Wahrheit/Wie das Herz nach Liebe".

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