ELISABETH LOUISE VIGEE-LEBRUN. 1755-1842

85 PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS ALEXANDRA GOLITSYNA AND HER SON. 1794

Oil on canvas. 137 X 101 cm. Inv. No 1227 Signed and dated lower right: L. E. Vigee Le Brun Vienne 1794

Alexandra Golitsyna, nee Protasova, was the wife of Prince Alexei Golitsyn, Equerry to the Court. Their son was Piotr Golitsyn (1792—1842). Provenance: from ths late 18th century The A. Golitsyn Collection, St Petersburg; 1870 The N. Stroga-nov Collection, St Petersburg; 1902 The P. Golitsyn Collection, Moscow; 1905 The S. Vasilchikov Collection, St Petersburg; 1918—28 The Russian Museum, Leningrad; since 1928 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibition: 1905 St Petersburg, Cat. 240 Bibliography: Русские портреты 1905—9, vol. II, No 24, ill.; H. Врангель, "Иностранцы в России", Старые годы, 1911, July — September, p. 25; P. de Nolhac, Madame Vigee le Brun, peintre de Marie-Antoinette, Paris, 1912, pp. 197, 264; Reau 1929, No 578; L. Nikolenko, "The Russian Portraits of Madame Vigee Lebrun", Gazette des Bsaux-Arts, 70, 1967, p. 107, No 24

85 PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS ALEXANDRA GOLITSYNA AND HER SON. 1794