Lot 282: Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)

Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)
Portrait of Nikolai Alekseevich Mukhanov (1802-1871)
pencil and watercolour, with gum arabic in places, on paper laid down on pink paper
8 7/8 x 6 7/8 in. (22.6 x 17.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1827

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. 67.

M. Baruch & I. Sakharova, Russian Portraits in Watercolour, 1825-1855, Paris, 1994, pp. 134 and 135, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Piotr Feodorovich Sokolov. Russian intimate Portraits, Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 2003, illustrated p. 57, no. 67.

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N. A. Mukhanov was educated at home before entering into the service of the Leib Guards Izmailovsky Regiment in 1819. The following year he joined the Orenburgsky Uhlan Regiment as a cornet before being transferred to the Leib Guards Hussar Regiment where he became aide-de-camp and subsequently lieutenant in 1826. He was decorated for his part in the Russo-Turkish war before commencing work at the Ministry of Internal Affairs from 1832. In 1866 Mukhanov became a full privy councillor, a member of the state council, senator and honourable trustee. This portrait was painted in St Petersburg and can be dated to the end of 1827/the first half of 1828.