FRANQOIS GERARD. 1770-1837

93 PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS MARIA KOCHUBEI

Oil on canvas. 65 X 56 cm. Inv. No 2772

Maria Kochubei (1779—1844), nee Vasilchikova, lady

of honour, was the wife of Chancellor Victor Kochubei

(1768—1834), who was head of the Ministry of Home

Affairs (1801—12 and 1819—25).

This portrait, a pendant to the portrait of Prince

Victor Kochubei (The Hermitage, Inv. No 4645), was

painted around 1809.

Provenance: from the early 1800s The V. Kochubei Collection, St Petersburg; 1908 The Durnovo Collection, St Petersburg; until 1923 The Stroganov Palace Museum, Petrograd; 1923—30 The Hermitage, Leningrad; since 1930 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1908 St Petersburg, Cat. 253; 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 35

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 57; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 82; Прокофьев 1962, ill. 90

93 PORTRAIT OF PRINCESS MARIA KOCHUBEI