Nightly Prayer (Nächtliches Gebet) also known as Portrait of Ernestine Max (Bildnis Ernestine Max)
c. 1880-1890
oil on canvas
46,8 x 37,8 cm
upper right signed: Gab. Max and pictograph
Ernestine Max nee Harlander was the second wife of the artist Gabriel Max.
The cryptograph or pictograph on the subject's blouse reads: "Das ist das Ernestl das ich lieb" ("This is Ernestl I love so much").
Provenance:
Galerie Konrad Bayer, Munich, from whom The Daulton Collection acquired the painting
Publication History:
Dariusz Kacprzak, Kolekcja Doeringów / Die Kunstsammlung Doering [The Doering Collection] (Szczecin, former Stettin, Poland: Willa Lentza [Villa Lentz], 2024), ill. at pg.185.
