Young Girl

These two portraits were registered in the inventory of the Sak1p Sabanci Museum Collection as a pair due to their matching frames. The young girl in this edition could not be identified. The similarity of their materials, size, and date suggests that Abdülmecid Efendi painted this portrait around the same time as the other one. The figure in the portrait has a European appearance; she is wearing a grey-white veil, threaded with gold around its edges and a double-looped, knotted white scarf around her neck, with the red sash tied around her waist partially visible.Along with the other portrait,Abdülmecid Efendi might have also copied this work from the photograph or etching of a European painting.

Although it is not possible to determine whether the painting was originally mounted in its Rococo frame, the backs of both frames bear the label of the Viennese court gilder Rudolf Bauer.At the top of the label is the double-headed eagle insignia of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Beneath this is written: "Rudolf Bauer k. k. [kaiserlich und koniglich] Hof-Vergolder Wien. FABRIK: VI. Windmi.ihlgasse 12. NIEDERLAGE: I. Plankengasse 3."*

*"Rudolf Bauer, Gilder to the Imperial and Royal Court, Vienna. WORKSHOP: VI. Windmiihlgasse 12. CITY BRANCH: I. Plankengasse 3."