PORTRAIT OF THE GRAND DUKE ALEXANDER PAVLOVICH (1777-1825)

Sold at Christies 24 November 2011

Lot Description
Attributed to Dmitry Levitsky (1735-1822) Portrait of the Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich (1777-1825)
oil on canvas
24½ x 19 3/8 in. (62.5 x 49.3 cm.)

Provenance
Vasilii Kochubei (1860-1940), Kiev (at the time of the 1905 exhibition). Acquired by the uncle of the present owner in St Petersburg in the 1920s.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION

attributed_to_dmitry_levitsky_portrait_of_the_grand_duke_alexander_pav_d5509931hLiterature
S. P. Diaghilev, Vystavka russkikh portretov ustraivaemoi v
tavricheskom dvortse [Exhibition of Russian Portraits at the
Tauride Palace], St Petersburg, 1905, listed p. 36, no. 849.
Exhibited
St Petersburg, Vystavka russkikh portretov ustraivaemoi v tavricheskom dvortse [Exhibition of Russian Portraits at the Tauride Palace], 1905, no. 849 (partial label on the stretcher).

 

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