European Portrait Miniatures: Twentieth Century

Listed in chronological order by the date of each painting
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Early Twentieth Century Viennese Lady,
Believed to Be a Member of the Deutsch Family,
Seated on a Park Bench and Depicted in a Landscape
Setting with an Image of the Pyramids of Giza Appearing Behind

Austrian
circa 1922-1925
by Rudolph Sternad (1880-1944)
(unsigned)

3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (sight); full frame measures 4 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches

watercolor on ivory; housed under glass in an gilt brass frame

Young American Girl, Believed to Be
Marion Louise Rodie* (1927-2014),
Wearing a Yellow Sundress and
Depicted in a Seaside Landscape

Austrian (painted in America by an Austrian artist)
dated 1931
by Rudolph Sternad (1880-1944)
(signed obverse, lower right edge, Rud. Sternad / 1931)

3 inches diameter (sight); full frame measures 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches

watercolor on ivory; housed under glass in an ormolu (gilt bronze) frame

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