1800's Silhouette Portrait Art Need ID

Another one of my attic cleanout.This is a Silhouette art portrait,the frame glass was brolken so I had to take it out,really fragile.The back has some type of writing on back.Maybe this will help id this art.

 

On the back it looks like Fredericke Bendix and then lower down is Erich Bendix.

I suspect that the cross before the date (12 Feb 1897) implies that Fredericke died on that date. That date is in what we call "military format" but I don't know if that is meaningful.

 

Interesting, my very first thought was that it was a woman and before reading what it said on the back, but that was just a quick guess.......... @antiquelover69, can you tell me how tall JUST THE SHADOW figure is?????

 

The date is written as it would be in many European countries.

Debora

 

Measure from top to bottom 16"x11 wide at head

 

It’s an angled silhouette that I wanted to see if ‘stretching’ him out proportionately might make him more recognizable, but time ran away tonight…..will try tomorrow when am back on computer!! Thanks!!

 

Probably because I've slogged through way too much Danish text, but I read the names as 'Frederikke Bendix f. Weil' (the 'f. Weil' indicating 'born Weil') and 'Erik Bendix'. Believe she is the lady below, though they show her date of death as Feb. 13th rather than the 12th. Find an 'Erik August Bendix', 1878-1951, buried near Frederikke in the same cemetery - they were apparently a wealthy Jewish family in Copenhagen...


http://www5.kb.dk/images/billed/2010/okt/billeder/object445618/en/




~Cheryl

 

Yes, definitely Danish. Frederikke and Erik, Danish spelling.
And the date is indeed written in a way that is common here in Continental Europe.

 

Don't throw the original glass and frame out. Adds to value.

Debora

 

My God, you're GOOD!!!! Without further touching the silhouette I can see the resemblance!!!!!!!!!! WELL DONE, Cheryl!! (NICE CDV too!)

 

Interesting, to me at least! It almost or kind of looks like "they" might have done the photo/CDV and the silhouette in the same sitting or at the same time....... her head is raised in the silhouette, but other than that, I think they are SO CLOSE!!! (Although the more I look at them, I think the body morph in the silhouette "looks" like an "older" body.....while still thinking the same person........) AAACK!!!! I QUIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Eh, the Scandinavian publications and records that I've spent so much time with over many years usually have to do with silversmiths and with genealogy, so the spelling of the names and the 'f.' abbreviation were giveaways. Frederikke was easy to find and it was clear the family was prominent, Erik was a bit more difficult (believe he was her youngest child, born 20 years after her first), and must admit to a bit of pride in my Danish roots (both paternal grandmothers Danish immigrants) when I realized that he still lived in Copenhagen at his death in 1951, still very successful. As a child, was and still am, fascinated with my 'Viking' heritage, but after moving at age eight to a Chicago area town filled with Holocaust victims, the majority of my friends' families affected in some direct way, I learned of the Danish government's attempts under German occupation to protect the Jewish population, and the largely successful moves by the resistance to actually save most of their Jewish population, an amazing achievement...

~Cheryl

 

From wikipedia.org...

"Cutting portraits, generally in profile, from black card became popular in the mid-18th century, though the term silhouette was seldom used until the early decades of the 19th century, and the tradition has continued under this name into the 21st century. They represented a cheap but effective alternative to the portrait miniature, and skilled specialist artists could cut a high-quality bust portrait, by far the most common style, in a matter of minutes, working purely by eye. Other artists, especially from about 1790, drew an outline on paper, then painted it in, which could be equally quick."

Debora

 

Wow! thank you!