Comments on: The Helen Of Troy Theory

By: Let’s Put The Jenny Lind Theory To Rest | Rare Victorian

Let’s Put The Jenny Lind Theory To Rest | Rare Victorian — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:25:15 +0000

[...] Helen as well as Lady Liberty. I did a post that analyzed the Jenny Lind theory in detail and I then explored the theory that the arms depict Helen of Troy based on a parlor set with some family history to that [...]

By: Robert Lawrence

Robert Lawrence — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:10:50 +0000

Another bit of information on Queen Louise Augusta of Prussia. She was present and dressed as an amazon, wearing the uniform of her lancers, at the battle with Napoleon at Auerstedt. I was incorrect before about her date of death. She died in 1810 and Napoleon’s attempts to slander her even after death made her even more popular in Europe. Napoleon referred to her as “Helen of Troy” because she kept a picture of Czar Nicholas I in her bedroom that made Napoleon claim she was in love with the Russian and not her husband. She was lionized for her great beauty and honored as a heroine up until the turn of the century and after.

By: Robert Lawrence

Robert Lawrence — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:45:16 +0000

The head looks like Richter’s portraits of Queen Louise Augusta, wife of King Frederick William III of Prussia. Her stand against surrendering to Napoleon and her demands for Prussian autonomy and destruction of the French emperor made her the most popular woman in Europe even after her death in the 1850′s and her face was emblazoned on many, many European things, especially German, up through the 1890′s. The crown on the head of your couch image looks just like the head dress Queen Louise usually wore. In Richter’s large and elaborate 1886 drawing of Queen Louise and her two sons she is wearing a cloth head dress of the same shape as those seen in his life portraits. I have a print of Richter’s drawing that dates back to 1886, but the original is in the Cologne Conservatory. How far out in left field is this information?

By: George Hunzinger Sofa With “Opera Singer” Arms | Rare Victorian

George Hunzinger Sofa With “Opera Singer” Arms | Rare Victorian — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:11:24 +0000

[...] very close to the $5,750 that one of these sofas sold for at Neal Auction last year. I prefer the Neal Auction version with the gilt-incising and ebonized [...]

By: RareVictorian

RareVictorian — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:14:12 +0000

No one called BS on this yet. Not sure if that is good or bad