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Alexander Roslin
Anastasia Ivanovna, Countess of Hesse-Homburg, Princess Trubetskaya 1757
oil on canvas
63.5 × 53.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1971
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Anastasia Ivanovna, Countess of Hesse-Homburg, Princess Trubetskaya
1757
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
63.5 × 53.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1971
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
This animated portrait of a Russian princess was painted in Paris in 1757, at the height of Alexander Roslin’s acclaim in France. Its lifelike quality is all the more remarkable for the fact that Roslin never knew his sitter, who had died in St Petersburg two years earlier. The portrait was commissioned by her grief-stricken half-brother, Ivan Ivanovich Betskij (1704–95), then living in Paris. Betskij ordered two versions of the likeness of his deceased sister, and two versions of a companion portrait of himself. This portrait sensitively includes numerous objects recalling the life and significance of the countess.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.c.: A Roslin. 1757. le Suedois
inscribed in white paint l.r.: 161.
Accession Number
E7-1971
Department
International Painting
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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Portraits
Subjects (specific)
curtains (window hangings) dog (species) gowns princesses seated figures sleeves (costume) windows women (female humans)