808 - Anna Blaschke, Stormy Sea, tondo with sailing boat and surf on a rocky coast, around 1900

Anna Blaschke, Stormy Sea, tondo with sailing boat and surf on a rocky coast, around 1900 Painter, active around 1900, oil on panel, signed lower right in Cyrillic script, circular picture field with an animated coastal scene: foaming breakers strike against the rocky, green-brown shore zone in the foreground, on the right a sailing boat crosses the churning sea, accompanied by several gulls before the hazily overcast sky, on the horizon a dark strip of shore. The tondo is set in a gilt, square passe-partout with a round aperture and framed in a richly relieved, gilt ornamental frame. On the reverse inscribed in pencil 'v. Klingenberg, geb. Fürstin Kropotkin' as well as 'für Familie' with a signature and the place indication 'Stuttgart 1955', additionally inscribed in ink 'Klingenberg', condition appropriate to age, craquelure, image 23x22 cm (HxW), overall size 36.5x36.5 cm (HxW) The painter Anna Blaschke was active around 1900; among her surviving works are coastal and marine motifs as well as views of St. Petersburg. The Cyrillic signature and the inscription on the reverse, which names a née Princess Kropotkin, indicate a connection to the Russian cultural sphere; the Kropotkins are among the old Russian princely families.