Lot 281: Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)

Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)
Portrait of Alexei Nikolaevich Zubov (1798-1864)
signed 'Socolow' (centre left)
ink and watercolour, heightened with white and with gum arabic in places, on paper
9 1/8 x 7 in. (23.2 x 17.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1830

Brussels, Exposition d'Art Russe ancien et moderne, May - June 1928, no. 241.
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. 58.

Exhibition catalogue, Exposition d'Art Russe ancien et moderne, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, 1928, no. 241. M. Baruch & I. Sakharova, Russian Portraits in Watercolour, 1825-1855, Paris, 1994, pp. 138 and 139, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Piotr Feodorovich Sokolov. Russian intimate Portraits, Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 2003, illustrated p. 51, no. 58.

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Born in 1798, A. N. Zubov was a cornet in the Guard Hussar regiment and later became a chamberlain, Councillor of State and a privy Councillor.