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Lot 307
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Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Konstantin Makovsky
  • Portrait of the Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaevich
  • signed in Latin t.r.; further inscribed naslednik on the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
  • 64 by 40cm, 25 1/4 by 15 3/4 in.

Condition

Original canvas. There is faint craquelure in places throughout. There are a couple of minor surface scratches in the top middle area. UV light reveals a couple of minor spots of retouching in the lower right quadrant. Held in a gold-painted wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

In 1907 a series of photographs were taken of the Tsesarevich in the present costume. A few years earlier in 1905, Makovsky had painted a rather more formal portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, but the appearance of this hitherto unknown and less formal portrait of her younger brother is a great rediscovery.