Royalty
[ERNST LUDWIG
(1868-1937, last reigning Grand Duke of Hesse & By Rhine, 1892-1918, his second wife, 1905, ELEONORE, 1871-1937, née Princess of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, and their sons GEORG DONATUS, 1906-1937, and LUDWIG (V), 1908-1968)]
Charming unsigned Group Portrait Postcard Photograph, by Susanne Homann
of Darmstadt, showing the parents sitting cross legged in a meadow, Georg Donatus, on his mother's lap, is smiling and stroking something in the right hand of his father, who has Ludwig in infant's clothes on his knee, 5½ x 3½, no place,
Item Date: 1909
Background
Ernst Ludwig found in Eleonore someone to share his artistic interests after the lonely period when Victoria Melita had left him and his daughter Elisabeth had died.
Stock No. 54474