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Kaspar Hauser. 
Duke Karl, and was so struck by its resemblance to Kaspar 
Hauser that she fainted. On recovering, she said that the sight 
of that face brought back all the wrongs and sufferings of the un- 
happy youth so strongly that she could not support the memory, 
She had been very fond of Kaspar Hauser, and he had often 
visited her in Ansbach. 
Prince Vasa of Sweden, husband of one of the daughters of 
Grand-Duchess Stephanie, told a gentleman, who was greatly 
interested in Kaspar Hauser’s history, that once when the Prince 
was travelling with his wife upon a Rhine steamer, several students 
from Ansbach, who had never before seen the Princess, and did 
not then know who she was, remarked that “she looked enough 
like Kaspar Hauser to be his sister !” 
It is probable that this striking resemblance had much to do 
with the firm belief of Queen Caroline and King Ludwig in the 
identity of Kaspar Hauser with the Crown Prince of Baden. 
The only authentic portrait of Kaspar Hauser is a pastel paint- 
ing by the artist Kreul of Ansbach, made in 1830, and formerly 
in the possession of President von Feuerbach. 
The steel engraving which accompanied Feuerbach’s pamphlet 
was taken from this portrait, and it is the same in which Menzel 
recognised the striking resemblance to the royal family of Baden. 
The original picture has recently been presented to the Art 
Gallery of the University of Wiirzburg by Dr. Streit of Kissingen, 
a well-known collector of antiquities. Feuerbach considered this 
portrait “a speaking likeness,” and it is certain that the painter 
Kreul was regarded as an adept in his art, for Bernadotte, after- 
wards King of Sweden, employed him to paint his portrait during 
the Marshal's residence in Ansbach in 1806. Kreul’s most cele- 
brated picture is his  Niirnberger Bickermidchen” (Nuremberg 
Baker-girl), which was engraved about forty years ago by the 
Albert Diirer Society in Nuremberg as a premium picture for 
their subscribers.