Lot 19
19
This lot is offered without reserve.
After Élisabeth-Louise Vigée le Brun

Portrait of Grand Duchess Elisabeth Alexievna, wife of the future emperor Alexander I of Russia

Details
After Élisabeth-Louise Vigée le Brun
Portrait of Grand Duchess Elisabeth Alexievna, wife of the future emperor Alexander I of Russia
oil on canvas
30½ x 24¼ in. (77.5 x 61.6 cm.)
Literature
L. Nikolenko, "The Russian portraits of Madame Vigée-Lebrun", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LXX, July-August 1967, no. 23B, illustrated p. 109.
Exhibited
New York, College Art Association, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Portraiture, year unknown, no. 17.
Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery, Rebels in Art, December 1936-January 1937, p. 10.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

The present lot is a period copy after the second portrait of Elisabeth Alexievna by the artist from 1797 (Private collection). Other copies are in the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, the Musée Fabre in Montpellier and the Museo Mario Praz, Rome.

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