Wilhelm Heinrich Füssli, 1830 Zürich – 1916 B... Lot n° 572

BEAUTY IN CORNFLOWER BLUE Oil on canvas. 144 x 104 cm. Signed and dated "1871" lower right. In gilded frame with relief decoration. The almost full-length portrait of a young lady in a cornflower-blue dress with a folded fan, white lace, blue bow, multi-row pearl necklace and the Sisi hairstyle typical of the period stands in front of a balustrade bordered by a profiled pilaster at the right edge of the painting, behind which the viewer can see a park landscape characterized by treetops. Provenance: Auction Dr. Störi Kunstsalon, Zurich (Slg. Dr. Sch.), 23/24 September 1927, lot 23, pl. II. Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, probably February 1936, lot A 177. Galerie Thannhauser, sheet A77. XIX.020.039.010 and A77.XIX.022.009.045. Literature: This portrait is illustrated in Yvonne Groß, Ludwig Scheidegger, in: Wilhelm Heinrich Füssli, 1830-1916, Munich, 2021, WHF G49, p. 171 (1401335) (13)