Lot 931. Hubert Vos, Photograph of the portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi, 1905-1906. Estimate 1,000 — 2,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.

gelatin silver print, mounted for framing. Height: 12 3/8  in., 31.5 cm. Width: 8 7/8  in., 22.6 cm

Provenance: Collection of Hubert Vos, and thence by descent.

Note: The oil on canvas portrait, titled H. I. M., the Empress Dowager of China, Cixi (1835-1908), is now in the collection of the Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums. 

Hubert Vos, American (Maastricht, Holland 1855 - 1935 New York, NY), H. I. M., the Empress Dowager of China, Cixi (1835-1908), 1905-1906. Oil on canvas, 169.6 x 123.6 cm (66 3/4 x 48 11/16 in.); framed: 169.6 x 123.2 x 7 cm (66 3/4 x 48 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.). Signed: l.l., in Chinese: Respectfully painted by Hubert Vos. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop (1943.162) © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Sotheby's. Saturday at Sotheby's: Asian Art, New York, 17 sept. 2016, 10:00 AM