Reinhold Lepsius, Portrait of a Lady in a White Dress. Around 1900. Reinhold Lepsius1857 Berlin - 1922 ibid. Sabine Lepsius 1864 - 1942 Oil on canvas, laminated on hardboard and mounted on a stretcher. Unsigned, u.l. authorized by the artist's widow Sabine Lepsius "Unfinished: R. Lepsius". Verso on the stretcher inscribed "Signirt (sic!) von Sabine Lepsius, geb Graef 1935", mi.li. Remains of a historical paper label, probably numbered "37". Framed in a profiled gold-coloured wooden frame. Provenance: South German possession; formerly the estate of Prof. Ulrich Noack (1899-1974). Literature: Annette Dorgerloh: Das Künstlerehepaar Lepsius. Zur Berliner Porträtmalerei um 1900. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2003. Partly slightly soiled. The picture support has probably been restored. Further delayed painterly reworking as well as later retouching in places. Partially with early shrinkage craquelure, more clearly in the area of the centre of the picture, in the light areas of the dress. Slight age craquelure in the face. Slight traces of pressure due to framing. Dimensions: 128 x 84,5 cm, overall 139 x 95 cm. Reinhold Lepsius 1857 Berlin - 1922 ibid. Portrait painter of the Berlin Secession, regarded as representative of the German Impressionism. Son of the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius. One of the first to paint openly from photographs. Acquaintance with poet Stefan George. Many of the artist's works are considered lost, well-known works are his portraits of the archaeologist Ernst Curtius and the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey. Lepsius was a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. From 1892 he was married to the painter Sabine Lepsius, née Graef, with whom he had four children.