Bildnis der Tochter Mary Stuck mit Margeritenkranz. Um 1910.
Tempera on panel.
Cf. Voss 350. Signed in center right. With an old label and a stamp of 'Gebrüder Oberndorfer', Munich, on the reverse. 31 x 31 cm (12.2 x 12.2 in).
In an original frame by 'Gebrüder Oberndorfer', Munich.
• Portraits of his daughter Mary were among Stuck's most popular works even during his lifetime.
• Particularly fine and fresh picture, in which Stuck used the characteristic blue hair ribbons and a wreath of daisies to make his daughter a little spring princess.
• Family-owned for several generations and for the first time on the international auction market.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Heinemann, Munich (with the label on the reverse).
Collection of privy councillor Max von Guilleaume (1866-1932), Cologne (acquired from the above in 1911).
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

LITERATURE: Kunsthaus Lempertz, Nachlass Geheimrat Max von Guilleaume, vol. 2: Inhalt des Kölner Hauses: Gemälde neuzeitlicher und alter Meister [..], auction on May 2 - November 5, 1932, no. 12 (with illu. on plate 4).