2-880-247 - Shirley Markham Collection/Heritage Images

Chopin Ballade III, Op. 47, 1895. Woman riding side saddle on a rearing horse. 'Probably exhibited in October 1895, in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters under the title of the Comtesse d'Armailhacq...a companion to the Chopin Nocturne. Executed in flat sepia washes'. There is no record in the music department of the British Library of any such edition (Chopin Ballade III, Op. 47), being published. As to the identity of the countess, no such person existed at this date. From "The Best of Beardsley" edited by R. A. Walker, [The Bodley Head, London, 1948]