Live Auction 6392East & West: A Private Collection from Eaton Square & Anouska Hempel
Hungarian School, circa 1705
Lot 322

Hungarian School, circa 1705

Portrait of Maria Toldalagi (b. 1674), aged 30, full-length, in a richly embroidered green dress, a lace apron and a bejewelled headdress, holding a fan in her right hand, in an interior

Closed2 May 2013

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Hungarian School, circa 1705
Portrait of Maria Toldalagi (b. 1674), aged 30, full-length, in a richly embroidered green dress, a lace apron and a bejewelled headdress, holding a fan in her right hand, in an interior
inscribed 'NALACZI LAIUS Uram kedves hazos - tarsanak TOLDALAGI MARIARR iguz kepi mikor volt 30. Eszlendos - Ao 1705.' (upper right); and with the sitter's coat-of-arms (upper right)
oil on canvas
82 x 48¾ in. (208.3 x 123.8 cm.)

Specialist note

The sitter was married to Lajos Naláczi. Another full length portrait of her in similar attire can be found at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest.