A refined 19th-century antique frame in bright gilding, sourced individually in Paris — balanced proportions, subtle detail.

The original spent almost twenty-three years sealed inside a wall. The archival edition returns it to daylight, held in an antique frame found separately in Paris. While the print itself is an edition, this specific antique frame is unique. The two are paired once and will never be repeated.

The green stops you. Deep, forested, alive — a ground that holds the face without swallowing it. The gaze is direct. The expression gives nothing away.

Everyone knows Klimt through gold. This painting has none. In this late portrait, gold gives way to direct colour, gesture and presence. The sitter’s name was never recorded: she is simply einer Dame — a lady. The work was stolen from the Ricci Oddi Gallery in 1997 and found in 2019, hidden behind a panel in the gallery’s own exterior wall, almost twenty-three years later.

The antique frame returns a quiet edge of gilding to the composition — not to restore what the painter set aside, but to hold it. And this image knows something about lost time: nearly twenty-three years of it, sealed inside a wall. Its work now is simply to be seen. Le temps retrouvé. Time regained.

Placed on a staircase landing or in a selected corridor — encountered in passing, then returned to.