Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (1807-1873), in lace-bordered white dress, long white gloves, wearing five strand pearl necklace with large sapphire clasp, drop sapphire earrings, red carnations, corn ears, jewelled headband and jewelled diadem in her upswept and dressed fair hair, wearing the red moiré sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Catherine

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ANTHELME FRANÇOIS LAGRENÉE (FRENCH, 1774-1832)
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (1807-1873), in lace-bordered white dress, long white gloves, wearing five strand pearl necklace with large sapphire clasp, drop sapphire earrings, red carnations, corn ears, jewelled headband and jewelled diadem in her upswept and dressed fair hair, wearing the red moiré sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Catherine
signed 'Lagrénée' (lower left)
oval, 2 5/8 in. (67 mm.) high, stamped gilt-metal frame with crown surmount

Provenance

Count Alexander Benckendorff, last Imperial Russian Ambassador to the Court of St. James's.
By descent to Mrs Humphry Brooke, née Countess Nathalie Benckendorff; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1995, lot 91.

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Lot Essay

Frederike Charlotte, elder daughter of Prince Paul of Württemberg, took the name of Elena Pavlovna on her Orthodox baptism. She married Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich (1798-1849) at St. Petersburg in February 1824.

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