Lot 12
  • 12

After Alexander Roslin

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Alexander Roslin
  • Portrait of Empress Maria Fedorovna
  • oil on canvas
  • 80 by 63.5cm, 31 1/2 by 25in.

Provenance

Hagelstam Helsinki, Höstauktion, 3 December 2000, lot 96 (illustrated on the cover)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Catalogue Note

Empress Maria Fedorovna, second wife of Paul I of Russia and mother of Alexander I and Nicholas I, is depicted wearing the sash and star of the Order of St Catherine. The composition relates to the 1777 original by Roslin in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum. Several versions and copies are known.