Lot 511: Alexander Briullov (1798-1877)

Alexander Briullov (1798-1877)
Portrait of a young woman in a turban
signed 'A. Brulloff' (centre right)
pen, ink and watercolour on paper
8 1/8 x 6½ in. (20.7 x 16.1 cm.)
Executed in the 1830s

Moscow, Museum of Private Collections, Pushkin's Contemporaries: 100 Portraits in Watercolour from a Parisian Collection, May - July 1999.
Moscow, Pushkin Museum, Alexander Pavlovich Briullov. Russian intimate Portraits, 2008, illustrated pp. 57 and 115.

M. Baruch & I. Sakharova, Russian Portraits in Watercolour, 1825-1855, Paris, 1994, pp. 32 and 33, illustrated.

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Based on their physical similarity, there is speculation that this young woman may be Princess Sofia Alexandrova Urusova, possibly in her wedding garb for her marriage to Lev Liudvigovich Radzivill.