Portrait of Countess Sophia Alexandrovna Bobrinsky (1799-1866)
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Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)
Portrait of Countess Sophia Alexandrovna Bobrinsky (1799-1866)
signed 'Socolow' (lower right); inscribed 'Sophie Bobrinsky' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white and with gum arabic in places, on paper laid down on blue paper
8 7/8 x 6 7/8 in. (22.7 x 17.4 cm.)
Executed in 1827
Portrait of Countess Sophia Alexandrovna Bobrinsky (1799-1866)
signed 'Socolow' (lower right); inscribed 'Sophie Bobrinsky' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white and with gum arabic in places, on paper laid down on blue paper
8 7/8 x 6 7/8 in. (22.7 x 17.4 cm.)
Executed in 1827
Provenance
Nicholas Lynn, London.
Literature
M. Baruch & I. Sakharova, Russian Portraits in Watercolour, 1825-1855, Paris, 1994, pp. 145 and 146, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Piotr Feodorovich Sokolov. Russian intimate Portraits, Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 2003, illustrated p. 65, no. 78.
Exhibition catalogue, Piotr Feodorovich Sokolov. Russian intimate Portraits, Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 2003, illustrated p. 65, no. 78.
Exhibited
Moscow, Museum of Private Collections, Pushkin's Contemporaries: 100 Portraits in Watercolour from a Parisian Collection, May - July 1999. Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 'I see myself as if in a mirror...' Contemporaries of A. C. Pushkin in the Portraits of P. F. Sokolov, 2003, no. 78.
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