SARO-PALLESKE, MARIA. "Lone Horseman in a Forest Landscape". oil/canvas. 46x55.5cm. R. signed. and that: Maria Palleske 1849. Frame.

Little known Russian painter today (1825 Odessa - 1911 Thal/Thuringia), pupil of the portrait, genre and landscape painter Eduard Freyhoff in Berlin, whom she married in 1842, and of the battle painter Horace Vernet in Versailles. After the death of her husband shortly afterwards in 2. Married to the literary historian Emil Palleske in 1848. Based on the signature, the present painting was created in the second marriage.