Josepha Conti née ''Josepha Reh'' (17 February 1825 – 28 November 1881) was a Bavarian servant and beauty of the 19th century.Josepha Conti (1844)
at the ''Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte'' website

Life

Born in

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as the eldest daughter of the household servant Michael Reh, she was married aged 15 to a 45-year-old painter Anton Conti in 1840. They lived on Briennerstrasse in Munich, near the Royal Residenz, thus becoming known to

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, who included her in his

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. Her husband had left her by 1845, but she then worked (from 1850 to 1852) as a maker of canvases for the royal court. In 1856, she married Anton Schirsner, District Council in the Munich district of Au, with whom she had a child.

Sources

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