LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

30.24 in. (76.80 cm.) (height) by 24.65 in. (62.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Cavaliere de Lampi / Pinxit ano 1807' (center right)

Literature:

H. Fuchs, Die österreichischen Maler des 19. Jahrhunderts, III, Vienna, 1973, pp. K8-K10, pl. 8. R. Pancheri, Giovanni Battista Lampi alla corte di Caterina II di Russia, Trent, 2011, pp. 135-136, 355, no. 118.

Provenance:

Anonymous sale; Auktionshaus Albert Kende, Vienna, 21 November 1917, lot 672, as a portrait of Baroness Aleksinova. (Probably) The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. Private collection, Vienna; Auktionshaus Albert Kende, Vienna, 20 March 1936, lot 218, as from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. Private collection, Australia.