Click-to-enlarge image can be found here, or at the only work, by this artist, so far, to appear in Mr. Melcher’s blog.Gabriele and Adelheid von Humboldt (link shows Google translated German Wikipedia page, painting’s image caption there says she was 7, which makes Adelheid maybe 9) isn’t, as far as I can tell, shown online by its current-location.They were 2 of Caroline (Google translated) and Wilhelm von Humboldt’s 8 children. His Google translated German Wikipedia page provides the birth and death dates for Adelheid (actually Aurora Raffaele Adelheid there), and says she married a Prussian cavalry general.According to this (Google translated, search for Adelheid), she was about a month before her 15th birthday and he was 29½, when they were married (Google guesses at the verh.. abbreviation — it’s of verheiraten, not verhält).It also says she had posed for a sculpture of Psyche, when she was maybe 10, owned a good Burgörner (whatever that is, maybe an inn) for nearly 30 years before her death and then Gabriele owned it for nearly another 30 (ending maybe 2 years before hers).Or at least that’s what Google, Bing, and Babylon all translated hatten nacheinander Gut Burgörner I’m Besitz to mean. The artist’s Wikipedia page (Google translated German Wikipedia page maybe has more) and collection.
margueritem almost 11 years ago
Weren’t they little cuties!
BE THIS GUY almost 11 years ago
Living in the ’burbs before moving to Williamsburg.
zero almost 11 years ago
Before they went shoe shopping…
orinoco womble almost 11 years ago
Anyone else reminded of Dodgson’s “scandalous” photographs of Alice?
pcolli almost 11 years ago
When we grow up, I’ll be the man and you can be the lady.
PICTO almost 11 years ago
Tina and Amy: The Early Years.
Linguist almost 11 years ago
Early portrait of Ellen Degeneres with friend.
Enoki almost 11 years ago
Lizzie Borden, the early years…
jack fairbanks almost 11 years ago
Ah, the joys of “festive”, embodied in the Appalachian pre-nup photos
puddlesplatt almost 11 years ago
Daddy is offering any man big bucks to marry me and make me streight, ain’t gonna happen!
mabrndt Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Click-to-enlarge image can be found here, or at the only work, by this artist, so far, to appear in Mr. Melcher’s blog.Gabriele and Adelheid von Humboldt (link shows Google translated German Wikipedia page, painting’s image caption there says she was 7, which makes Adelheid maybe 9) isn’t, as far as I can tell, shown online by its current-location.They were 2 of Caroline (Google translated) and Wilhelm von Humboldt’s 8 children. His Google translated German Wikipedia page provides the birth and death dates for Adelheid (actually Aurora Raffaele Adelheid there), and says she married a Prussian cavalry general.According to this (Google translated, search for Adelheid), she was about a month before her 15th birthday and he was 29½, when they were married (Google guesses at the verh.. abbreviation — it’s of verheiraten, not verhält).It also says she had posed for a sculpture of Psyche, when she was maybe 10, owned a good Burgörner (whatever that is, maybe an inn) for nearly 30 years before her death and then Gabriele owned it for nearly another 30 (ending maybe 2 years before hers).Or at least that’s what Google, Bing, and Babylon all translated hatten nacheinander Gut Burgörner I’m Besitz to mean. The artist’s Wikipedia page (Google translated German Wikipedia page maybe has more) and collection.
mabrndt Premium Member almost 11 years ago
What do you mean worthless? I find it to be a highly effective sleep aid — I’m asleep within 5 minutes after starting to watch it.
Reality,really? almost 11 years ago
Thelma and Louise in time out