12. Two pictures of Marshal Ion Antonescu’s mother, Litza Baranga, in her youth and during the Second World War, kept in the family
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12. Two pictures of Marshal Ion Antonescu’s mother, Litza Baranga, in her youth and during the Second World War, kept in the family
17.5 x 11.5 cm (fiecare)
PROVENANCE
The set originates from the family archive of Marshal Ion Antonescuâs cousin, Rodica MÄrculescu, who was raised in his family after she became orphaned at the age of two. She had a special relation with the marshalâs wife, whom she nursed and helped after 1946. His wife, Rica, left several goods that had belonged to her and to the marshal as an inheritance. The respective goods have remained in the cousinâs family to this day. In a memoir on Ioan Petru Culianu, Èerban C. Andronescu says, with regard to these goods, that: "Philippe had been an en vogue journalist in Paris in the time of Marshal Petain, when Romania was led my Marshal Antonescu, and Artemisa was a friend of Rodica MÄrculescu. Having become orphaned at the age of two, she had been raised with Ion Antonescu; she was like a true sister to him and, as Mizica used to say, he had died in her arms in the apartment from the old 246 Calea MoÈilor. She had left several belongings of the Antonescu family to Mizica, Mrs. Maria Antonescuâs mink coat, the marshalâs gold watch with chain, letters, and other such items."
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