A photograph of Cardinal Hergenröther.
The sitter was born in Würzburg, Germany on September 15, 1824. He died in Rome on October 3, 1890. He was Curator of the Vatican Archives.
Painted in 1883/4? In the Lucerne newspaper called Vaterland dated April 22, 1885 the portrait of this sitter was described as ‘das lebensgrosse Bild des Kardinals v. Hergenröther’. The Urner Wochenblatt, Altdorf, dated April 25, 1885, adds that Hergenröther was ‘eines besondern Gönners des Künstlers’.
