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Portrait of Alexander Mordvinov
Details
Vladimir Hau (1816-1895)
Portrait of Alexander Mordvinov
signed and dated 'W. Hau/1846' (centre right)
watercolour, heightened with white, on paper
8¾ x 7 3/8 in. (22 x 18.5 cm.)
Executed in 1846
Portrait of Alexander Mordvinov
signed and dated 'W. Hau/1846' (centre right)
watercolour, heightened with white, on paper
8¾ x 7 3/8 in. (22 x 18.5 cm.)
Executed in 1846
Literature
M. Baruch & I. Sakharova, Russian Portraits in Watercolour 1825-1855, Paris, 1994, pp. 78 and 79, illustrated.
Exhibited
Moscow, Museum of Private Collections, Pushkin's Contemporaries: 100 Portraits in Watercolour from a Parisian Collection, May - July 1999.
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