Sale 3730
New York
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20 May 2015
Price realised
USD 3,750
Estimate
EMPRESS ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA (1872-1918) Portrait photograph signed 'Alexandra/ 96.', shown in three fourths length in dress, jewels, and kokoshnik, by Alfred Pasetti, St. Petersburg, 6¼ x 4¼ in. (159 x 108 mm.), in a later gilt-wood frame, within a wood shadow box frame, signed upper left
Provenance
With Sophie Dupré, London. Acquired from the above by the present owner.
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