LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolour, heightened with white and with gum arabic in places, on paper laid down on card

Measurements:

8.50 in. (21.60 cm.) (height) by 6.85 in. (17.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in Cyrillic 'A. Brulloff' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Moscow, Museum of Private Collections, Pushkin's Contemporaries: 100 Portraits in Watercolour from a Parisian Collection, May - July 1999. Moscow, Pushkin Museum, Alexander Pavlovich Briullov. Russian intimate Portraits, 2008, no. 78.

Literature:

M. Baruch & I. Sakharova, Russian Portraits in Watercolour, 1825-1855, Paris 1994, pp. 28 and 29, illustrated.