Live Auction 2835European Noble and Private Collections
Clara Heinke, active 1870s
Lot 592

Clara Heinke, active 1870s

A portrait of Helene Duchess von Württemberg (1807-1880), Princess zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, bust-length, wearing a black dress with a white bonnet

Closed16 December 2009

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EUR 1,000

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Clara Heinke, active 1870s
A portrait of Helene Duchess von Württemberg (1807-1880), Princess zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, bust-length, wearing a black dress with a white bonnet
signed and dated 'Clara Heinke 1898.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
70.4 x 60.1 cm.
inscribed with the name of the sitter on the reverse and with a stamp reading 'Museum Verwaltung Gera'

Specialist note

Helene Princess zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, daughter of Carl Ludwig III Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Amalie Henriette Charlotte Countess zu Solms-Baruth, was born on the 22nd of November 1807 at Langenburg, Baden-Württemburg. On 11 September 1827 she married Eugen Herzog von Württemberg. Helene died at the age of 72 at Schloss Heinrichsruh, near Schleiz and was buried in Sophienkirche, Karlsruhe.