LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

27.28 in. (69.30 cm.) (height) by 21.97 in. (55.80 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy, France in the eighteenth century, 6 January-3 March 1968, no. 715, as 'Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun'.

Provenance:

(Probably) Baron Alexander Zachary Nikolaevich Stroganoff (1740-1789), the sitter's father, commissioned from the artist in Saint Petersburg before 1795, subsequently at his house on New Isaakievskaya Street, Saint Petersburg, and by inheritance through the sitter, Baroness Elisabeth Alexandrovna Stroganoff (1779-1818), to Count Paul Nikolaevich Demidoff (1798-1840), Governor of Kursk, and by descent to his son, Count Paul Pavlovich Demidoff, 2nd Prince of San Donato (1839-1885), at the Villa San Donato and subsequently (after 1872) at the Villa Demidoff di Pratolino, Tuscany, where by descent to his grandson, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893-1976), at the Villa Demidoff, and by descent to the present owner.