AUGUSTIN-CHRISTIAN RITT (RUSSIAN, 1765-1799)

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AUGUSTIN-CHRISTIAN RITT (RUSSIAN, 1765-1799)
A young gentleman, in profile to the left, in blue coat, powdered hair en queue
Signed ‘Ritt.’ (under the truncation)
On ivory
Oval, 48 mm. high, gilt-metal mount in brown velvet easel-stand frame

Provenance

Christie’s, South Kensington, 7 March 1995, lot 82 (part lot).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A similar signed profile portrait by Ritt of 1795 depicting Prince I. S. Bariatinsky is in G. N. Komelova, Augustin Ritt: Russian Miniaturist 1765-1799. Life and Art, St Petersburg, 2004, p. 64, illustrated in colour.

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