Old Masters including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

LOUIS ANTOINE COLLAS | Portrait of Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (1788-1819)

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May 7, 04:02 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

LOUIS ANTOINE COLLAS

Bordeaux circa 1775

PORTRAIT OF GRAND DUCHESS CATHERINE PAVLOVNA OF RUSSIA (1788-1819)

Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold mount;

signed and dated lower left: Collas / 1809

6.5 by 5.4 cm., 2⅝ by 2⅛ in.

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Sale, Geneva, Christie's, 16 November 1993, lot 101

M. Friesen, Französische Miniaturen 1770-1880, Darmstadt, 2001, p. 402, fig. 83

The sitter married in 1809, the same year as this portrait was painted, George, Duke of Oldenburg (d. 1812), four years later, in 1816, she married William, King of Württemberg (d. 1864). Collas worked in St Petersburg between 1803 and 1811.