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a close up of a statue of a woman's head

Edited and adapted from Christie's' lot essay, October 2020: A GIFT TO THE EMPRESS? This composition was originally intended as the study for a head of Danaid commissioned by Emperor Nicholas I of Russia. Rauch took great care in the model’s creation, choosing Luise Engel, a young woman famed for her beauty, for his subject. Dissatisfied, however, with his inability to capture the longing expression necessary for a Danaid, he transformed the study into a Flora, adding the elaborate wreath…

a woman wearing a fur stole and looking down at her left shoulder, in front of a marble background

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