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Emil Orlik: Portrait Leopold Graf von Kalkreuth

Portrait Leopold Graf von Kalkreuth
etching with drypoint printed in brown, 1903
Plate/Image Size: 29.5 x 20 cm - (11½ x 7¾ inches)
Sheet Size: 42 x 26.5 cm - (16½ x 10½ inches)
signed in pencil

one of Orlik's most important and imposing portrait etchings
a fine impression on soft wove paper watermarked BSB
apart from a crease in the lower right corner, in excellent condition
VERY SCARCE

Count Leopold Karl Walter von Kalkreuth (1855-1928) was a painter and printmaker. He was a member of the secessionist movement