L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e ~ D o s t o ï e v s k i

L a - b e a u t é - s a u v e r a - l e - m o n d e  ~  D o s t o ï e v s k i



Sunday, May 8, 2022

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.




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