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Description: black lead on light blue paper

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Dimensions: 358 by 215mm; 14 1/4 by 8 1/2in

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Provenance: Dr. Dammer (L.652d)

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Notes: This life study seems to have been used by Schwind as the basis for the figure of the Sultan's beautiful daughter Marcebille, in the fresco depicting Florence and Bertrand meeting Marcebille and Roxanne, painted in around 1833-5 for the Königsbau of the Munich Residenz (see O. Weigmann, Moritz von Schwind, Stuttgart/Leipzig 1906, p.101, reproduced). The painting was one of five representing scenes from Johann Ludwig Tieck's Romantic, medievalizing "comedy" of 1804, Kaiser Oktavianus. These paintings in turn formed part of a series of some twenty frescoes inspired by the fairytales and romances of Tieck, with which Schwind decorated the queen's library rooms in this famous palace.