JEAN-LOUIS VOILLE. 1744-after 1803

80 PORTRAIT OF EKATERINA NARYSHKINA. 1787

Oil on canvas. 64.5 X 54 cm. Inv. No 803 Signed and dated lower right: Voille J787 Ekaterina Naryshkina (1769—1844), nee Stroganova, was the wife of Ivan Naryshkin, High Chamberlain and Grand Master of Ceremonies to the Royal Court. The portrait was executed in the year of their marriage.

Provenance: since 1787 The I. Naryshkin Collection, St Petersburg; since 1905 The N. Sollogub Collection, Moscow; since 1924 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (received from the State Museum Reserve) Exhibitions: 1905 St Petersburg, Cat. 467; 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 26

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 21; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 31; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 44; Русские портреты 1905—9, vol. I, No 166, ill.; Д. Рош, "Несколько замечаний о Вуале и Виоллие", Старые годы, 1909, October, p. 575; Reau 1929, No 690; ЗОЛОТОЕ 1968, р. 221, ill.

80 PORTRAIT OF EKATERINA NARYSHKINA. 1787