The subject of this photograph is a landscape photograph of Livland. This is located roughly in the southern half of present-day Estonia and the northern half of today’s Latvia.  The Baltic-German Transéhe-Roseneck family made their home on an estate in the the town of Balvi, located in the Latgale region of eastern Latvia. 1.

Additional details of the Transéhe-Roseneck family may be gleaned from a biography published by the Museum of Foreign Art in Riga,  Latvia.  The volume features the collection now housed at the museum formerly in the collection of Jaungulbene nobleman and art collector Paul von Transehe-Roseneck (1853-1928). 2.

1. Wikipedia
2. Daiga Upeniece, Ingrida Raudsepa : Paula fon Tranze-Rozeneka kolekcija (Sammlung Paul von Transehe-Roseneck ) : Riga : Meness up: 2005