![FRANCIS JOSEPH I, Emperor of Austria—in a white general's uniform, portrait photograph, L. Angerer, Vienna, [ca. 1860–1865]](https://gcp-la8-storage-cdn.lot-art.com/public/upl/6/FRANCIS-JOSEPH-I-Emperor-of-Austria-in-a-white-generals-uniform-portrait-photograph-L-Angerer-Vienna-ca-1860-1_6adfe97dcd426-full-07470200_1793059199-6adfe97f123e5.jpg "FRANCIS JOSEPH I, Emperor of Austria—in a white general's uniform, portrait photograph, L. Angerer, Vienna, [ca. 1860–1865]")
FRANCIS JOSEPH I, Emperor of Austria—in a white general's uniform, portrait photograph, L. Angerer, Vienna, [ca. 1860–1865]
FRANCIS JOSEPH I, Emperor of Austria—in a white general’s uniform, portrait photograph, L. Angerer, Vienna, [ca. 1860–1865].
Photograph (albumen print) on original mount, measuring 10.6 x 6.2 cm (visiting card size), with the upper left corner trimmed, by Ludwig Angerer in Vienna.
The Emperor is depicted full-length, wearing a white general’s tunic and light-colored trousers with stripes, with a saber; he rests his hand on a general’s hat with a plume lying on the table, next to a Rococo chair. Below the photograph is the inscription “L. Angerer.” On the reverse is an advertising vignette of the studio featuring the imperial eagle and images of medals: “L. Angerer K.K. Hof-Photograph in Wien. Photographed from life. All rights reserved,” along with later annotations in pencil. Good condition.
Franz Joseph I (1830–1916)—Emperor of Austria from 1848, King of Hungary from 1867, and the longest-reigning monarch in the history of the Habsburg Monarchy. He was an avid hunter; he spent years in Bad Ischl, from where he set out on hunting expeditions in the Salzburg Alps. As King of Galicia and Lodomeria, he approved Galician autonomy, which granted Poles a provincial parliament, a Polish administration and education system, and Polish-language universities in Kraków and Lviv. He visited Galicia on numerous occasions, including Kraków in 1880.
The portrait depicts the monarch, then about thirty years old, during the period of constitutional reforms (the October Diploma of 1860 and the February Patent of 1861). During those years, the foundations of Galician autonomy were being laid: in 1861, the National Sejm convened in Lviv, and the fundamental laws of 1867 enabled the Polonization of the administration and the education system. The Emperor was King of Galicia and Lodomeria and Grand Duke of Kraków. This is one of the classic portraits of the monarch.
L. Angerer (1827–1879)—one of the pioneers of photography in Austria, and from 1860 the Imperial-Royal Court Photographer in Vienna. His studio on Feldgasse in Vienna produced most of the official portraits of the imperial family in the 1860s.
FRANCIS JOSEPH I, Emperor of Austria—in a white general’s uniform, portrait photograph, L. Angerer, Vienna, [ca. 1860–1865].
Photograph (albumen print) on original mount, measuring 10.6 x 6.2 cm (visiting card size), with the upper left corner trimmed, by Ludwig Angerer in Vienna.
The Emperor is depicted full-length, wearing a white general’s tunic and light-colored trousers with stripes, with a saber; he rests his hand on a general’s hat with a plume lying on the table, next to a Rococo chair. Below the photograph is the inscription “L. Angerer.” On the reverse is an advertising vignette of the studio featuring the imperial eagle and images of medals: “L. Angerer K.K. Hof-Photograph in Wien. Photographed from life. All rights reserved,” along with later annotations in pencil. Good condition.
Franz Joseph I (1830–1916)—Emperor of Austria from 1848, King of Hungary from 1867, and the longest-reigning monarch in the history of the Habsburg Monarchy. He was an avid hunter; he spent years in Bad Ischl, from where he set out on hunting expeditions in the Salzburg Alps. As King of Galicia and Lodomeria, he approved Galician autonomy, which granted Poles a provincial parliament, a Polish administration and education system, and Polish-language universities in Kraków and Lviv. He visited Galicia on numerous occasions, including Kraków in 1880.
The portrait depicts the monarch, then about thirty years old, during the period of constitutional reforms (the October Diploma of 1860 and the February Patent of 1861). During those years, the foundations of Galician autonomy were being laid: in 1861, the National Sejm convened in Lviv, and the fundamental laws of 1867 enabled the Polonization of the administration and the education system. The Emperor was King of Galicia and Lodomeria and Grand Duke of Kraków. This is one of the classic portraits of the monarch.
L. Angerer (1827–1879)—one of the pioneers of photography in Austria, and from 1860 the Imperial-Royal Court Photographer in Vienna. His studio on Feldgasse in Vienna produced most of the official portraits of the imperial family in the 1860s.
