LOT DETAILS

Materials:

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

Measurements:

10.83 in. (27.50 cm.) (height) by 8.90 in. (22.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and inscribed 'Hampeln/sourd:muet/à Moscou' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Paris, Salle Pleyel, Exposition Pouchkine et son époque, 1937. Moscow, Museum of Private Collections, Pushkin's Contemporaries: 100 Portraits in Watercolour from a Parisian Collection, May - July 1999.

Literature:

M. Baruch & I. Sakharova, Russian Portraits in Watercolour, 1825-1855, Paris, 1994, pp. 44 and 45, illustrated.

Provenance:

The Collection of Alexandre Semenchenkoff; Christie's, London, 22 October 1987, lot 624. Collection of Alexandre Polonsky, Paris.