LOT DETAILS

Materials:

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

Measurements:

9.80 in. (24.90 cm.) (height) by 7.95 in. (20.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'A. Brulloff' (centre right)

Exhibited:

London, Belgrave Square, Exhibition of Russian Art, June - July 1935, no. 339. 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. 25.

Literature:

M. Baruch & I. Sakharova, Russian Portraits in Watercolour (1825-1855), Paris, 1994, pp. 26 and 27, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue, Alexander Pavlovich Briullov. Russian intimate Portraits, Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 2008, p. 39 , no. 25.