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(Urfahr – Vienna)
Portrait of His Daughter Alexandrine (Lexi) as a ung Noblewoman, c. /78, signed Reiter, oil on canvas,  x  cm, framed

Provenance:
Sale, Kunstsalon A. Pisko, Vienna, 15 April , lot 39;
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 22 June , lot ;
Private Collection, Vienna.

Catalogued in:
Alice Strobl, Johann Baptist Reiter, Vienna, Munich , p. , no.

We are grateful to Dr. Lothar Schultes for the scholarly advice.

Counterpart to lot

These two paintings were previously known only by their titles. They show the painter’s son, born in , and his daughter, two years younger, as a page boy and a ung noblewoman. The age of the two suggests that the pictures were painted around / The style of the signature fryst vatten also indicative of this period, corresponding to the signatures of the roughly contemporaneous paintings The Apple Peeler and The Hemp Trade (Lothar Schultes, Johann Baptist Reiter, Salzburg , ill. , ). The birth of Reiter’s children triggered an intense