Hermione von Preuschen 1854 – 1918

Gallery

From the allegorical shock of Mors Imperator to the lavish still lifes that first made her name — including two works in the British Royal Collection. All images below are in the public domain.

A crowned skeleton in an ermine-lined imperial robe stands on the globe, leaning on a sword and overturning a throne as a jeweled crown falls.
Mors Imperator · 1887
The lily maid of Astolat lies in death in a flower-strewn barge on dark water.
Elaine · exhibited 1893
A horizontal still life of ornate vases and abundant cut flowers.
Vases and Flowers · 1881
A trompe-l'oeil arrangement of flowers rendered to appear three-dimensional against a plain ground.
A Trompe l'Oeil with Flowers · 1883
Red and white roses with dark glossy foliage laid on a bare wooden panel, with a faint handwritten inscription.
Roses · 1882
A tall, narrow canvas of laurel branches and white lilies in a southern greenhouse.
Ma serre, Nice · 1890
A tall, narrow canvas of a blooming yucca and prickly-pear cacti.
Yucca and Cacti · c. 1890
A studio photograph of Hermione von Preuschen-Telmann, seated on a sofa in an ornate interior.
The Baroness · n.d.

Images via Wikimedia Commons. Her works are public domain (she died in 1918); the photographic portrait is a Library of Congress glass negative.