After Georg Martin Ignaz Raab, Austrian 1821-1885- Portraits of the Empress Elizabeth and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria; oils on canvas, each 63 x 47 cm., a pair (2). Provenance: Property from a European Private Collection. Note: The present works are copies after Raab's original portraits of Empress Elizabeth, also known as 'Sisi', (1837-1898) and her husband Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830-1916), now held in the collection of the Belvedere Museum in Vienna [8841 and 8840 respectively].

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