Gottlieb Theodor Hase
Virginia Mayer, sitting with a book, um 1870
About the object
The portrait in carte-de-visite format shows Virginia Clorer, née Mayer. The daughter of the Freiburg merchant Jakob Mayer is the mother of Maria Wohlleb, the wife of the Baden President Leo Wohleb. She is sitting in bourgeois clothes with a book in her hand on an upholstered armchair in a typical studio setting.