Sale 7453
London
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27 November 2007
Price realised
GBP 8,750
Estimate
PIETRO DE ROSSI (RUSSIAN, 1761-1831) Count Kyrill Alekseevich Razumovskii (1780-1829), in blue coat with green lapels and collar, pale grey waistcoat, white shirt, holding a book; landscape background rectangular, 3 5/8 x 3 7/16 in. (93 x 87 mm.), gilt-metal mount
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Other miniatures by Rossi from this particularly inspired period are illustrated in T. A. Selinova, Petr Rossi. Russkii miniatiurist, Moscow, 2005, pl. VI-X.
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