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This work is one out of many drawings and watercolors from the two albums compiled between 1833-1850 by Princess Henriette Odescalchi.
Princess Henriette Odescalchi, nee Countess Zichy-Ferraris was born
on February 10, 1800 as a daughter of Count Ferenc Franz Zichy-Ferraris
de Zich et Vásonkeö (see our additional image) and Marie Wilhelmine von
Ferraris. She was the older sister of 5 years her junior Countess
Melanie Zichy-Ferraris, the 3rd wife of Austrian Chancellor Prince
Metternich.
She was born at her parents' residence Castle Karlburg (now Rusovsky
Kastiel in the suburb of Bratislava, Slovakia; see our additional
image).
In 1831, Henriette married 22 years her senior aristocrat of Italian
descent, Prince Innocenzo Vincenz Odescalchi (see our additional
image). The latter died on September 24, 1833, i.e. 19 days after this
watercolor (it is dated September 7) was painted and 9 weeks after the
birth of his son.
Widowed and with child, Princess Henriette first lived in Karlburg;
then, from 1842 - in her summer residence, Castle Hinterberg near the
resort Baden by Vienna (see our additional image; now, it is one of
Austrian prisons) and in her winter quartier in Vienna. She was one of
the most prominent ladies of the Austrian high society, the bearer of
the ladies Star Cross Order, head of the "Gesellschaft adeliger Frauen
zur Beförderung des Guten und Nützlichen" (English: Noblewomen's Society
for Encouragement of the Virtues and Principals"). She died on December
12, 1852.
Condition: good
Creation Year: 1840
Measurements: UNFRAMED:14,3x21,2cm/5,6x8,3in
Object Type: Unframed drawing
Style: 19th century drawings
Technique: pen, brown ink on paper
Inscription: inscribed in French
Creator: Princess Henriette Odescalchi
Creator Dates: 1800-1852
Nationality: Austrian
Themes:
ODESCALCHI
FEMALE ARTIST
AUSTRIAN
ITALIAN
NEAPOLITAN
AMALFIAN
AMALFI
ARISTOCRAT
COASTAL
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