Princess Natalia Vladimirovna Soltykova (1737-1812), lady-in-waiting to the Empress of Russia, in blue dress, high white lace collar, wearing the red moiré sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Catherine and the lady-in-waiting badge

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RUSSIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1808
Princess Natalia Vladimirovna Soltykova (1737-1812), lady-in-waiting to the Empress of Russia, in blue dress, high white lace collar, wearing the red moiré sash and breast-star of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Catherine and the lady-in-waiting badge
2 7/16 in. (62 mm.) diam., gold mount within octagonal silver-gilt frame

Provenance

Alexandre Rozembergh, Paris, 1928.

Exhibited

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition d'art russe ancien et moderne, 1928, no. 164 (lent by Alexandre Rozembergh, Paris).

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Lot Essay

Daughter of Prince Vladimir Petrovich Dolgorukii, the sitter married Prince Nikolai Ivanovich Soltykov. This miniature is after the original oval oil portrait by the Moravian painter Martin Ferdinand Quadal, engraved by A. Ukhtomskii in 1808 and illustrated in Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, Russkie portrety [...], St. Petersburg, 1905-1909, II, no. 108.

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