Gelatin silver print 212 x 153 mm depicting a sitting woman in a dress with a dotted sheer top and exposed chest, in a hat, with the torso in ¾, turning her head to face the viewer and supporting her head with her right hand. Artist’s device in the bottom-right corner: “d’Ora | Benda”. This is likely a portrait of a Parisian milliner, Madame Agnès, i.e. Agnès Rittener (French, d. 1949).

LIB-3351.2024 Madame d’Ora / edited by Monika Faber. – Munich, London, NY: Prestel Verlag / Neue Galerie, 2020, p.101.

Verso: Blue ink stamp: Copyright | d’ORA | Wien, I. | Arthur Benda | 14160 (ms pencil) ||

Below pasted a label with blue lettering, framed:

AG. SCHOSTAL

PARIS | 81, RUE BLANCHE | TEL. TRINITÉ 23.05 | № 7835 (ms red pencil) /

WIEN | STARHEMBERGG. 26 | TEL. U-42-0-81 | № 48283 (ms graphite pencil) /

MILANO | VIA VIVAIO 24 | Tel. 24,244 | №

BEI VERÖFFENTLICHUNG ZU NENNEN: | PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE: MENTION OBLIGATOIRE: MENZIONE OBBLIGATORIA: | d’Ora Benda, Wien (SCHOSTAL) ||

Agentur Schostal was an Austrian press photo agency named after its founder, Robert Franz Schostal (German, 1906 – c. 1973).

Artist: Kallmus, Dora [Madame d’Ora] (Austrian-Jewish, 1881 – 1963)