Lot 22: PETR FEDOROVICH SOKOLOV (1787-1848) Portrait d’une dame signed in Lati

PETR FEDOROVICH SOKOLOV (1787-1848) Portrait d’une dame signed in Latin (lower left) pencil, watercolour on paper partially laid on card 20.5 x 16.5cm (8 1/8 x 6 1/2in).

Provenance Collection of Prince Argoutinsky-Dolgorukov, Paris A la Vieille Cité, 350 Rue Saint-Honore, Paris Acquired from the above by a private New York collector, 2 April, 1980 Thence by descent Exhibited Brussels, Exposition d’Art Russe Ancien et Moderne, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, May - June 1928 Paris, 2e Exposition ‘Pouchkine et Son Epoque,’ organized by Serge Lifar, Lycee Russe de Paris, 26 June - 10 July 1949, no. 63 Literature Exposition d’Art Russe Ancien et Moderne, organisée par Le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, 1928, p. 51, listed as no. 242, with