Lot 181: JEAN-LOUIS VOILLE (PARIS 1744-C. 1805) Portrait of Elizaveta Alex

JEAN-LOUIS VOILLE
(PARIS 1744-C. 1805)
Portrait of Elizaveta Alexandrovna, Baroness Stroganova
(1776-1818), later Countess Demidova, half-length
oil on canvas 27 1/4 x 22 in. (69.3 x 55.8 cm.)

PROVENANCE:
(Probably) Baron Alexander Zachary Nikolaevich Stroganof (1740-1789), the
sitter’s father, commissioned from the artist in Saint Petersburg before 1795,
subsequently at his house on New Isaakievskaya Street, Saint Petersburg, and
by inheritance through the sitter, Baroness Elisabeth Alexandrovna Stroganof
(1779-1818), to
Count Paul Nikolaevich Demidof (1798-1840), Governor of Kursk, and by
descent to his son,
Count Paul Pavlovich Demidof, 2nd Prince of San Donato (1839-1885), at
the Villa San Donato and subsequently (after 1872) at the Villa Demidof di
Pratolino, Tuscany, where by descent to his grandson,
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893-1976), at the Villa Demidof, and by descent to
the present owner.