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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
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.