Major General Basil Stepanovich Popov (1743-1822) in blue uniform with red facings and collar, white lace jabot, wearing the red sash, the silver breast-star and the jewel of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Alexander Nevskii; cloudy sky background

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SCHOOL OF GIOVANNI BATTISTA LAMPI, CIRCA 1791/1795
Major General Basil Stepanovich Popov (1743-1822) in blue uniform with red facings and collar, white lace jabot, wearing the red sash, the silver breast-star and the jewel of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Alexander Nevskii; cloudy sky background
2 5/16 (58 mm.) diam., gilt-metal fausse-montre frame with glazed silk reverse

Provenance

David David-Weil (1871-1952), Neuilly-sur-Seine, no. 800.
Sold by Wildenstein's, Paris, to Sir Charles Clore (1905-1979), London.
The Clore Collection of Portrait Miniatures, part II, sold Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1986, lot 16.

Literature

Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich, Portraits russes des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, St. Petersburg, 1905-1909, II, no. 19, illustrated.
L. Gillet/C. Jeannerat/H. Clouzot, Miniatures and Enamels from the D. David-Weill Collection, Paris, 1957, p. 206, no. 122, illustrated p. 207.

Exhibited

London, Garrard's, An exhibition of important 18th century and early 19th century miniatures and enamels, 1961, no. 122.

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Lot Essay

This miniature is after Giovanni Battista Lampi's rectangular oil portrait painted between October and December 1791 in Jassy, then capital of Moldavia, and now in the Regional Museum, Ilianovsk (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Un rittratista nell'Europa delle corti, Giovanni Battista Lampi 1751-1830, Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio, 2001, p. 68, fig. 61). Popov was President of the Russian Council of State and friend of Potemkin and Tsars Paul I and Alexander I.

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