Framed chromolith purchased at the flea-market April 16, 1999. I researched the artist when I got home, bought a monograph on Friedrich August von Kaulbach, discovered the subject's name was Rosario Guerrero and that he did at least six portraits of her between 1903 and 1908. This image, entitled Die tanzerin Guerrero ("the dancer Guerrero"), was the most widely commercially publish Kaulbach portraits of Guerrero. Reproduced in multiple editions of postcards, in magazine articles, books, this portrait was even the basis for Guerrero's posters for her performances at the Wintergarten theater in Berlin. There is a version of Die tanzernin Guerrero in the Frye Art Gallery in Seattle, WA.
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