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Anastasia Ivanovna, Countess of Hesse-Homburg, Princess Trubetskaya
1757
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1971
- Gallery location
- Not on display
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
inscribed in white paint l.r.: 161.
Everard Studley Miller Bequest, 1971
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