The sitter, Betty de Rothschild (1805-1886) had married banker James Mayer de Rothschild and was one of the foremost Parisian partons of the arts in the mid 19th century, whoes beauty inspired Heinrich Heine's poem "The Angel".
The sitter, Betty de Rothschild (1805-1886) had married banker James Mayer de Rothschild and was one of the richest women in northern Eurpoe, and one of the foremost Parisian partons of the arts. He beauty and elegance was widely known and celebratedm, and inspired Heinrich Heine's poem "The Angel".