Lot Essay
A copy of the present miniature was sold Christie's London, 28 May 2002, lot 194, and an oval version is illustrated in Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhaïlovich, Portraits Russes, St Petersburg, 1905, I, no. 61.
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Ivan Petrovich Arkarov (1743-1815), Governor of Moscow, in dark blue coat with red collar, wearing the red moiré sash, cross and breast star of the Russian Order of St. Anne and breast star and cross of the Russian Order of St. Vladimir
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PIETRO DI ROSSI (RUSSIAN, 1761-1831)
Ivan Petrovich Arkarov (1743-1815), Governor of Moscow, in dark blue coat with red collar, wearing the red moiré sash, cross and breast star of the Russian Order of St. Anne and breast star and cross of the Russian Order of St. Vladimir
octagonal, 2 3/8 x 2 1/16 in. (60 x 52 mm.), gilt-metal mount on a gilt-metal edged wood panel
Ivan Petrovich Arkarov (1743-1815), Governor of Moscow, in dark blue coat with red collar, wearing the red moiré sash, cross and breast star of the Russian Order of St. Anne and breast star and cross of the Russian Order of St. Vladimir
octagonal, 2 3/8 x 2 1/16 in. (60 x 52 mm.), gilt-metal mount on a gilt-metal edged wood panel
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