Quelle élégance discrète; a Frenchman in Russia - portraits by Jean-Louis Voille

 

Countess Anna Sergeevna Stroganova née Princess Trubetskaya, 1790.

Count Paul Alexandrovich Stroganov, 1792.

Princess Ekaterina Feodorovna Dolgorukova née Baryatinskaya with her sons Vasily and Nikolai, 1789.

By the roughness of the surface, this looks to be a very small, even miniature, painting.

 Unknown gentleman, 1788.

Olga Alexandrovna Zherebtsova née Zubova, circa 1790.

Count Valerian Aleksandrovich Zubov, circa 1791. (The brother of above.)

Ekaterina Alexandrovna Narishkina née Baroness Stroganova, 1787.

Baron Grigory Alexandrovich Stroganov, 1787. (Brother of above.)

Countess Sofia Vladimirovna Panina, née Orlova, 1791.

Count Nikita Petrovich Panin, 1792. (Husband of above.)

Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, 1792.

Unknown lady, circa 1795. Attributed to Voille and apparently unfinished.

 John Cayley, British consul-general in St Petersburg, 1788.

 Princess Ekaterina Petrovna Baryatinskaya née Princess Catherine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, 1791.

Member of the Yakhontov family (?), circa 1790.

Evgenia Sergeevna Dolgorukova née Smirnova, 1789.

Countess Natalia Alexandrovna von Buxhoevden née Orlova/Alekseeva, 1789.

Count Fredrich Wilhelm von Buxhoevden, 1789. (Husband of above.)

Countess Anna Stepanovna Protasova, 1787. She was a lady-in-waiting and confidant of Catherine the Great, whose portrait she wears.

A second portrait of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, circa 1795.

 Baron Pyotr Fyodorovich Maltits, 1788.

 Baroness Elizaveta Alexandrovna Stroganova, later Countess Demidova, circa 1794-5.

Count and Countess Panin - two portraits by Jean-Louis Voille, 1791-92

 

Count Nikita Petrovich Panin (17 April 1770, Kharkov - 1 March 1837, Smolensk), Imperial Russian diplomat, vice-chancellor, and and Foreign Minister. He was a nephew of Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin, son of Petr Ivanovich Panin, and son-in-law of Count Vladimir Grigorievich Orlov. He was one of the group who plotted the assassination of Paul I in 1801 which brought Alexander I to the throne.

Countess Sofia Vladimirovna Panina, née Orlova (6 November 1774 - 7 November 1844), daughter of Count Vladimir Grigorievich Orlov and lady-in-waiting to the Empress, Catherine II. The couple married in 1790; he was twenty and she was sixteen. They had five children together.

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Two miniatures of the couple by Charles-Joseph de la Celle, Chevalier de Chateaubourg (1758-1837), 1797.

"Blue boy"... no, not that one....

Portrait of Jacques Bizet as a Child, by Jules-Élie Delaunay, 1878.

Louis-Antoine de Bourbon, duc d'Angoulême, by Joseph Boze, 1785.

Portrait of a Boy, by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 1913.

Portrait of a Boy Wearing a Blue Bow Tie, American School, second half of the nineteenth century.

Young Peasant in Blue/Jockey, by Georges Seurat, 1882.

Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich, later Tsar Alexander I, at the age of fifteen, by Jean-Louis Voille, 1792.

Die Baba (The Baby), by Marlene Dumas, 1985.

Boy in a Turban holding a Nosegay, by Michiel Sweerts, circa 1661.

The Boy in Blue, by Isaac Grünewald, 1919.

Portrait of a Young Boy Dressed in a Brown Coat with a Blue Waistcoat, by Nathaniel Hone, third quarter of the eighteenth century.

Portrait of an Indian boy, by Rudolf Swoboda, last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Almost........!    The Blue Page, by Thomas Gainsborough, circa 1770-72.

Boy in a Blue Shirt, by Joan Eardley, circa 1950s.

Cortlandt Field Bishop, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1873.

Boy in the Blue Jacket, by Amedeo Modigliani, 1918.

Boy in a Striped Sweater, by Amedeo Modigliani, 1918.

Jacques de Chapeaurouge, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1744 (? More likely circa 1746-49).

The Irish Boy in Blue Denim (Anthony Lavelle), by Robert Henri, 1927.

Charles-Philippe de France, comte d'Artois, later Charles X, by Jean-Martial Frédou, 1773. (Father of the duc d'Angoulême, above.)

Blue Boy with the Banana, by Diego Rivera, 1931.

Boy in Sailor Suit (John Goldsmith), Boris Grigoriev, circa 1923-24.

Pojke med Apelsin (Boy with Orange), by Axel Jungstedt, 1882.