LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolour, heightened with white, on card, oval

Measurements:

6.93 in. (17.60 cm.) (height) by 6.02 in. (15.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'A. Bruloff' (centre 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. 27.

Literature:

M. Baruch & I. Sakharova, Russian Portraits in Watercolour, 1825-1855, Paris, 1994, pp. 34 and 35, illustrated. C. A. Podstanitskii, 'Experience in the iconographic attribution of two Russian portraits from the second quarter of the 19th century', The Fifth Scientific Conference 'Expertise and Attribution of Works of fine Art', 22-26 November 1999, Moscow, working papers, 2001, pp. 139-141. Exhibition catalogue, Alexander Pavlovich Briullov. Russian intimate Portraits, Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 2008, p. 56, no. 27.