Lot 270: Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)

Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)
Portrait of Prince Alexander Fedorovich Golitzin Prozorovskii (1810-1898); and Portrait of Maria Alexandrovna L'vova (1826-1901)
the first signed in Cyrillic and dated 'Sokolov/1847' (lower right), the second signed in Cyrillic and dated 'Sokolov/1847' (centre right)
pencil and watercolour, with gum arabic in places, on paper, oval
the first 13 1/8 x 10¼ in. (33.2 x 26 cm.); the second 13¼ x 10 1/8 in. (33.6 x 25.6 cm.)
Executed in 1847 (2)

Moscow, Museum of Private Collections, Pushkin's Contemporaries: 100 Portraits in Watercolour from a Parisian Collection, May - July 1999.
Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 'I see myself as if in a mirror...' Contemporaries of A. C. Pushkin in the portraits of P. F. Sokolov, 2003, no. 194 & 195 respectively.

Exhibition catalogue, Piotr Fedorovich Sokolov. Russian intimate Portraits, Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 2003, p. 148, nos. 194 & 195 respectively.

V. Ia. Andreev.

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Prince Alexander Fedorovich Golitzin, as the eldest son, was allowed by Imperial decree to add the name Prozorovskii, the name of his mother, to his, as she was the daughter of the Colonel in the Imperial Regiment. Golitzin became the Commander of the Guard Horse Grenadier regiment and married Maria Alexandrovna L'vova in 1848.