Lot 287: Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)

Piotr Sokolov (1787-1848)
Portrait of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1822-1892); and Portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna (1825-1844)
the second signed in Cyrillic 'Socolow' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour on paper laid down on blue paper
8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.1 cm.); 8½ x 6 3/8 in. (21.5 x 16.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1823 and 1826 (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, nos. 44-45.

M. Baruch & I. Sakharova, Russian Portraits in Watercolour, 1825-1855, Paris, 1994, pp. 153-156, illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Piotr Feodorovich Sokolov. Russian intimate Portraits, Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 2003, illustrated p. 43, no. 44 and 45.

Emperor Nicholas I (no. 137).
Prince Georgi Maximilianovich Romanovsky, Duke of Leuchtenburg
(no.1420) (label and stamp attached to the reverse).
Prince Alexander Georgievich Romanovsky, Duke of Leuchtenburg
(no.542) (label and stamp attached to the reverse).

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