Maria Anna Anhalt-Dessau “Romantic landscape”, 1875
Description
Oil on canvas signed lower right.: "Anna Maria / Bel 1875".
Framed: 74x64 cm (57 x 46 cm)
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau (Dessau 1837 – 1906 Friedrichroda) was a princess from the House of Ascania. She was the third child of Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt and Princess Frederica of Prussia. Maria Anna was considered by contemporaries to be one of the loveliest women of her generation. She possessed a remarkable talent for music and painting, and often advised young girls when they first entered society. Maria Anna was almost completely deaf, which according to her friend Princess Catherine Radziwill, "caused her to show extreme timidity and embarrassment whenever she found herself in company". Radziwill went on to say however that "when [Maria Anna] was alone with you, and not disturbed by the noise of many conversations around her, she became quite charming, and really witty".
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