LOUIS MICHEL VANLOO. 1707-1771

63 PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS EKATERINA (SMARAGDA) GOLITSYNA. 1759

Oil on canvas. 97 X 83 cm. Inv. No 747 Signed and dated center left: Van Loo 1759 Ekaterina Golitsyna (1720—1761), sister of the Russian Classicist writer Antioch Kantemir, was lady-in-waiting to Empress Elizaveta Petrovna and wife of Prince Dmitry Golitsyn, Russian ambassador to Vienna and the founder of the Golitsyn Hospital in Moscow. The portrait of Princess Golitsyna is a companion piece to the portrait of her husband, Prince Dmitry Golitsyn, executed by Drouais the Younger (The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Inv. No 894). The picture was painted during Golitsyna's sojourn in Paris between 1757 and 1761. Engraved by P. Gaillard.

Provenance: until 1918 The Golitsyn Hospital, Moscow; 1919—25 The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; since 1925 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Exhibitions: 1905 St Petersburg, Cat. 347; 1918 Moscow, Cat. 72; 1965 Bordeaux, Cat. 26; 1965—66 Paris, Cat. 25; 1972 Moscow, Cat., p. 98; 1974—75 Paris (Grand Palais), Cat. 478; 1975 Moscow Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 15; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 23; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 32; Dussieux 1856, p. 408; H. Голицын, Род князей Голицыных, St Petersburg, 1898, pp. 133, 138, 139; Русские портреты 1905—9, vol. II, No 27, ill.; H. Врангель, "Императрица Елизавета в искусстве ее времени", Аполлон, 1912, 7, р. 6, ill.; Reau 1924, p. 208, ill.; Золотое 1968, p. 132, ill,

63 PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS EKATERINA (SMARAGDA) GOLITSYNA. 1759