LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.20 in. (64.00 cm.) (height) by 21.26 in. (54.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in Cyrillic and dated 1779 m.l.

Exhibited:

St. Petersburg, Tauride Palace, Historical Fine Art Exhibition of Russian Portraits, 6 March - 26 September 1905, No.889a Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, Exhibition of Works by D.G.Levitsky, 1922-3, No.8.

Literature:

G.Goldovsky, L.Markina et al, Dmitrii Grigor'evich Levitskii 1735-1822: Catalogue, Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1987, p.125 listed no.13 N.Gershenson-Chegodaeva, Dmitrii Grigor'evich Levitskii, Moscow: Isskustvo, 1964, p.389 listed and illustrated no.22 as location unknown

Provenance:

The Golitsyn-Prozorovsky family, Ramenskoe L.G.Birchansky, Moscow, acquired 1922 Ivan Andreevich Melikov from 1930s Thence by descent