A lady of the Gagarin or Pushkin family, in black dress, red and blue bordered red cashmere stole draped over her left shoulder, short curling dark hair

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NANETTE ROSENZWEIG, NÉE WINDISCH (AUSTRIAN, FL. C. 1790-1820)
A lady of the Gagarin or Pushkin family, in black dress, red and blue bordered red cashmere stole draped over her left shoulder, short curling dark hair
signed 'Nanette Windisch pinx.' (lower right)
octagonal, 2¾ x 2¼ in. (50 x 57 mm.), gilt-metal mount within rectangular black frame

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Lot Essay

It has been suggested that the sitter is either Maria Alexeevna Volkonskaia (1750-1804), the mother of Prince Sergei Ivanovich Gagarin (1777-1862, see lot 389) or the mother of Varvara Mikhailovna Pushkin and not Maria Sergeevna (1815-1902), born Princess Gagarina, daughter of Prince Sergei Ivanovich Gagarin, as indicated on an old label on the backing paper.
Nanette Windisch painted miniatures of several Russian sitters such as Gregory Aleksandrovich Stroganov and his wife (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, A. Jay Fink Foundation).

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