page_title: Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Portret van Augustus Allebé (1838-1927), schilder en directeur van de Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten te Amsterdam. Buste en face.
context_page_description: Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was the eldest daughter and second child of Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and his wife Princess Sophie of the Netherlands.
  Through her mother, Marie was second-in-line to the Dutch throne after her nephew William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from 1900 to the birth of Princess Juliana in 1909. As her nephew was expected to abdicate his right to the throne in favor of retaining his title, Marie was expected to directly inherit the Dutch Crown upon the possible death of her still childless cousin Wilhelmina. The birth of Juliana subsequently changed the succession.
context_section_description: The young princess studied painting and made a portrait of the popular teacher August Allebé in 1886, which indicates that she probably attended a few of his open studio lessons for ladies in Amsterdam, but also indicated that she had not given up painting after her marriage.
caption: Portrait of August Allebé
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "3013", "Image ImageLength": "3616", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image Compression": "Uncompressed", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image ImageDescription": "2003-04-03", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "350", "Image YResolution": "350", "Image PlanarConfiguration": "1", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2010:04:15 17:10:46", "Image Copyright": "Rijksmuseum Amsterdam\nP.O. Box 74888 \n1070 DN Amsterdam\nThe Netherlands\n+31 206747000", "Image ExifOffset": "376", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "514", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "3482", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2031", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2500"}