Carte-de-visite three quarter length portrait of Amelie, Queen Dowager of Saxony, in a vignette format. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the right of the image. She is seated on an elaborately carved wooden chair, her hands placed in her lap. Her hair is arranged in two braided chignons on either side of her head. She is wearing an elaborate headscarf, decorated with flowers. She is wearing a dark coloured silk dress with a full skirt and a black lace shawl.
<p>Amelie was the fourth child of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his Queen, Friederike Karoline Wilhelmine Margravine of Baden. She was the identical twin sister of Elizabeth, later Queen of Prussia as wife of Frederick William IV of Prussia.
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In 1822 Amelie married Prince Johann of Saxony and the couple had nine children.
Hänfstaengl (photographer)
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