Dmitry Grigorievich Levitsky
Portrait of Count Ilya Andreevich Bezborodko
Auction Closed
December 1, 03:47 PM GMT
Estimate
350,000 - 500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Dmitry Grigorievich Levitsky
1735 - 1822
Portrait of Count Ilya Andreevich Bezborodko
oil on canvas
Canvas: 122 by 95.5cm, 48 by 37½in.
Framed: 134.5 by 108cm, 53 by 42½in.
Collection of Countess Liubov Alexandrovna Musina-Pushkina (1833-1917), great granddaughter of the sitter, St Petersburg, presumably by descent from her father, Alexander Grigorievich Kushelev-Bezborodko (1800-1855), grandson of the sitter
Antique dealer Opochinin, Moscow, 1920
Lev Adolfovich Grinberg (1900-1981), Paris
Collection of Evgeny Lvovich Liubovich (1883-1968), Paris and Émancé
Estate sale, Château de Sauvage, Émancé, 18 October 1970, lot 94
Beaussant & Lefèvre, Mobilier, Objets d'Art & Céramique, 6 November 2015, lot 208, as Studio of Levitsky
Antique dealer Opochinin, Moscow, 1920
Lev Adolfovich Grinberg (1900-1981), Paris
Collection of Evgeny Lvovich Liubovich (1883-1968), Paris and Émancé
Estate sale, Château de Sauvage, Émancé, 18 October 1970, lot 94
Beaussant & Lefèvre, Mobilier, Objets d'Art & Céramique, 6 November 2015, lot 208, as Studio of Levitsky
St Petersburg, Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Vystavka obshchestva pooshchreniya khudozhnikov, 1870
St Petersburg, Vystavka russkoi portretnoi zhivopisi za 150 let (1700-1850), 1902, no.49
St Petersburg, Tauride Palace, Istoriko-khudozhestvennaya vystavka russkikh portretov, 1905, no.819
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition d'art russe ancien et moderne, May-June 1928, no.190
St Petersburg, Vystavka russkoi portretnoi zhivopisi za 150 let (1700-1850), 1902, no.49
St Petersburg, Tauride Palace, Istoriko-khudozhestvennaya vystavka russkikh portretov, 1905, no.819
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition d'art russe ancien et moderne, May-June 1928, no.190
Exhibition catalogue Vystavka obshchestva pooshchreniya khudozhnikov. Istoricheskiy al'bom portretov izvestnikh lits XVI-XVIII vekov, St Petersburg, 1870, p.58 listed
Podrobnyi illyustrirovannyi katalog vystavki russkoi portretnoi zhivopisi za 150 let (1700-1850), St Petersburg: Izdanie Obshchestva sinyago kresta, 1902, p.76 illustrated; p.78, no.49 listed as being in the collection of Countess Liubov Musina-Pushkina
Exhibition catalogue Istoriko-khudozhestvennaya vystavka russkikh portretov, St Petersburg, 1905, p.30, no.819 listed as being in the collection of Countess Liubov Musina-Pushkina
Russkie portrety XVIII i XIX stoletii. Izdanie Velikago Knyazya Nikolaya Mikhailovicha, vol.II, St Petersburg: Ekspeditsiya zagotovleniya gosudarstvennykh bumag, 1906, pl.XI illustrated
Exhibition catalogue Exposition d'art russe ancien et moderne, Brussels, 1928, p.45, no.190 listed as being in the collection of Monsieur E.Lubovich, Paris
N.Gershenzon-Chegodaeva, Dmitry Grigorevich Levitsky, Moscow: Isskustvo, 1964, p.406, no.131 listed; p.430, no.106 in Igor Grabar's listing (noting its sale in 1920 via Opochinin in Moscow)
G.Goldovsky, B.Kosolapov et al., Dmitry Grigorievich Levitsky 1735-1822. Katalog, Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1987, p.130, no.36 listed; p.131, no.36 illustrated
Podrobnyi illyustrirovannyi katalog vystavki russkoi portretnoi zhivopisi za 150 let (1700-1850), St Petersburg: Izdanie Obshchestva sinyago kresta, 1902, p.76 illustrated; p.78, no.49 listed as being in the collection of Countess Liubov Musina-Pushkina
Exhibition catalogue Istoriko-khudozhestvennaya vystavka russkikh portretov, St Petersburg, 1905, p.30, no.819 listed as being in the collection of Countess Liubov Musina-Pushkina
Russkie portrety XVIII i XIX stoletii. Izdanie Velikago Knyazya Nikolaya Mikhailovicha, vol.II, St Petersburg: Ekspeditsiya zagotovleniya gosudarstvennykh bumag, 1906, pl.XI illustrated
Exhibition catalogue Exposition d'art russe ancien et moderne, Brussels, 1928, p.45, no.190 listed as being in the collection of Monsieur E.Lubovich, Paris
N.Gershenzon-Chegodaeva, Dmitry Grigorevich Levitsky, Moscow: Isskustvo, 1964, p.406, no.131 listed; p.430, no.106 in Igor Grabar's listing (noting its sale in 1920 via Opochinin in Moscow)
G.Goldovsky, B.Kosolapov et al., Dmitry Grigorievich Levitsky 1735-1822. Katalog, Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1987, p.130, no.36 listed; p.131, no.36 illustrated
