[ELISABETH (1837-1898, Empress of Austria, wife of Franz Joseph I)]

Fine Unsigned carte de visite photo by Rabending showing her half length in profile, with her hair plaited, earing a black and white dress, decorated with pearls and a heavy tiara ad necklace, 4¼" x 2½", no place, (Vienna) no date, circa

It is very rare to find photos of the Empress as she was not photographed after 1874.
The death of her only son Rudolf, and his mistress Mary Vetsera, in a murder–suicide at his hunting lodge at Mayerling in 1889 was a blow from which Elisabeth never recovered. She withdrew from court duties and travelled widely, unaccompanied by her family. While travelling in Geneva in 1898, she was stabbed to death by an Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni. Elisabeth was the longest serving Empress of Austria, at 44 years.

Item Date:  1867

Stock No:  39342      £275

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