Lot 273: Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)

Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)
Portrait of Count Nikolai Alexandrovich Samoilov
signed 'Socolow' (centre right) and inscribed 'Samoiloff' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour on paper laid down on paper
9 1/8 x 6 7/8 in. (23 x 17.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1825

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. 84.

M. Baruch & I. Sakharova, Russian Portraits in Watercolour, 1825-1855, Paris, 1994, pp. 146 and 147, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Piotr Feodorovich Sokolov. Russian intimate Portraits, Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 2003, illustrated p. 68, no. 84.

Nicholas Lynn, London.

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Count N. A. Samoilov was born in 1800. He served in the Preobrazhensky regiment and later served under A. P. Ermolov in 1817. In 1821 he became an aide-de-camp to Alexander I and in 1825 he married Countess Iulia Pavlovna von der Pahlen.