PAUL (HIPPOLYTE) DELAROCHE. 1797-1856

107 THE CHILDREN OF KING EDWARD IV

Oil on canvas. 51 X 60 cm. Inv. No 863 The present work of 1852 is a variant of the similarly entitled picture painted in 1831 (The Louvre, No 3834). Engraved with a burin by Jules Francois. Provenance: 1861 The Merk Collection, Moscow; The D. Botkin Collection, Moscow; since 1925 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 49; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 69; Каталог картин, составляющих собрание Д. П. Боткина в Москве, St Petersburg, 1875, No 13; Reau 1929, No 495; Ch. Blanc, Paul Delaroche, in: Histoire des peintres de toutes les ecoles, Ecole francaise, vol. 3, Paris, 1863, p. 19

107 THE CHILDREN OF KING EDWARD IV

108 PORTRAIT OF COUNTESS SOPHIA SHUVALOVA. 1853

Oil on canvas. 66 X 41 cm. Inv. No 861 Signed and dated left, in the background: a Mme de Narischkine Paul De la Roche J853 Sophia Shuvalova (1829—1894) was the daughter of Lev Naryshkin and from 1846 wife of Count Shuvalov (1819—1900), Marshal of the Nobility in the St Petersburg Province and Chairman of the Free Economic Society under Alexander II.

Provenance: 1861 The P. Shuvalov Collection, St Petersburg; until 1918 The Shuvalovs Collection, St Petersburg — Petrograd; 1918—24 The Shuvalov Memorial Museum, Petrograd; since 1927 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Exhibitions: 1861 St Petersburg, Cat. 323; 1905 St Petersburg, Cat. 1303; 1914 Petrograd, Cat. 216; 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 31

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 49; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 69; M. Коноплева, Дом-музей бывшей графини Шуваловой. Путеводитель, St Petersburg, 1923, p. 23, No 29

108 PORTRAIT OF COUNTESS SOPHIA SHUVALOVA. 1853